title: [Excentric lentiglobus posterior].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The posterior lentiglobe is a rare anomaly of the lens shape. Two cases of excentric protuberance of the posterior capsule are presented. To our knowledge, only one description of a similar case exists so far.
  
  
  METHODS
  An eight-year-old girl (diagnosis by routine examination, V.A. 20/20) and a six-year-old boy (V. A. 20/200, esotropia) are presented. Apart from a persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous and a posterior pole cataract a vitreous cyst adherent to the posterior surface of the lens has to be considered as differential diagnosis. The etiology remains unclear.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In excentric posterior lengtiglobe a good vision is possible. However, if visual acuity is impaired by posterior pole opacity or distortion of the spherical surface, removal of the lens followed by optical correction (contact lens, intraocular lens) of aphakia should be performed.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Ophthalmologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wiechens
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Behrendt
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rochels
mesh_terms: D002387:Cataract Extraction; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004948:Esotropia / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007903:Lens Capsule, Crystalline / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D008297:Male; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology
vernacular_title: Exzentrischer Lentiglobus posterior.