• Title of article

    Bilateral intraocular foreign bodie imulating crytalline len

  • Author/Authors

    Curti L Hagedorn، نويسنده , , hachar Tauber، نويسنده , , Ron A Adelman، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
  • Pages
    2
  • From page
    146
  • To page
    147
  • Abstract
    Purpoe To report a cae of large bilateral intraocular foreign bodie mitaken for crytalline len on computed tomography (CT). Deign Cae report. Method A 24-year-old man wa referred after bilateral open globe repair following a motor vehicle accident. Preoperatively, the CT can had been read a “Right eye poteriorly dilocated len . . . No evidence of foreign bodie.” Reult The patient underwent left eye cataract extraction with removal of a 7 × 5 × 5 mm piece of gla buried in the crytalline len. The patient ubequently underwent right eye par plana vitrectomy, removal of another piece of gla meauring 6 × 5 × 5 mm, retinal detachment urgery, and corneal grafting. Concluion Current afety tandard require auto gla to fracture into piece of a pecific ize to minimize laceration and miile injury. Thee piece of gla may have a hape and ize imilar to the crytalline len but have higher radiodenity on CT can.
  • Journal title
    American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Serial Year
    2004
  • Journal title
    American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Record number

    624975