title: Radiation cataract: clinicopathologic report.
abstract: We report the case of a 52-year-old woman who developed bilateral anterior and posterior subcapsular cataracts with anterior capsule fibrosis 12 years after exposure to intensive radiation therapy. The woman had uneventful cataract surgery and gained 20/20 corrected distance visual acuity in both eyes. Hematoxylin-eosin staining of the anterior capsule revealed significant subcapsular scar formation in the context of fibroblast proliferation.
  
  
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  No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
authors: Ophthalmology Department and Eye Research Center, Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. mahammadpour@yahoo.com
authors: Mehrdad
authors: M
authors: Mohammadpour
authors: Zahra
authors: Z
authors: Ebadi Movahedan
authors: Mahmoud
authors: M
authors: Jabbarvand
authors: Hassan
authors: H
authors: Hashemi
mesh_terms: D057866:Anterior Capsule of the Lens / Q000473:pathology / Q000528:radiation effects*; D002386:Cataract / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007573:Jaw Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000528:radiation effects*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011832:Radiation Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D011878:Radiotherapy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology