title: "The disappearing lens": failure of CT to image the lens in traumatic intumescent cataract.
abstract: The CT scans of three patients whose eyes were lacerated by trauma failed to demonstrate the lens. A slit-lamp examination of those eyes clearly indicated that the lenses were present behind the iris but that they were swollen and opaque (intumescent cataract). Apparently, a shift of water into the injured lens had reduced the expected hyperdense CT image of the lens to a level that it was no longer discernible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Almog
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Reider-Groswasser
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldstein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lazar
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Segev
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Geyer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002386:Cataract / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002648:Child; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed