title: Growth spurt in a lens with a posterior subcapsular cataract.
abstract: Over a period of 5 years, the lenses of a patient with a unilateral posterior subcapsular cataract were documented using Scheimpflug slit-image photography. For the first time ever, a growth spurt was observed of the cataractous lens. It is postulated that this could be a reflection of either a mitotic spurt of the lens epithelium or a failure of compaction of the deeper lens fibres.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Cataract Research Unit, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Shun-Shin
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Bron
authors.forename: N P
authors.initials: NP
authors.lastname: Brown
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002386:Cataract / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000503:physiopathology; D010781:Photography; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D014792:Visual Acuity