"The disappearing lens": failure of CT to image the lens in traumatic intumescent cataract.
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.
Almog
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Department of Ophthalmology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Reider-Groswasser
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I
Goldstein
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M
Lazar
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M
Segev
Y
Y
Geyer
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O
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