Growth spurt in a lens with a posterior subcapsular cataract.
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.
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Clinical Cataract Research Unit, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Oxford, UK.
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Brown
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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