[Clinical observations on the continuing presence of gilded molybdenum-wire in eye tissues (author's transl)].
Gilded molybdenum-wire remains in the sclera and episclera without any reaction of the tissue. Adjacent eye muscles are not involved. In two cases the loops penetrated slowly the sclera and choroid but not the retina.
D000368:Aged; D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000473:pathology; D006046:Gold; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008982:Molybdenum; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000473:pathology; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology; D012590:Sclera / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012591:Scleral Buckling; D013537:Sutures
D001672:Biocompatible Materials; D006046:Gold; D008982:Molybdenum
Klinische Beobachtungen über den Verbleib vergoldeten Molybdändrahtes in den Augengeweben.