Medico-legal implications of traumatic cataract.
Traumatic cataract is due to lens damage when mechanical, irradiative, electrical or chemical agents injury the globe. The appearance of a traumatic cataract is typically short and unilateral with rare spontaneous resolution and often involves other ocular anatomical areas. Medico-legal evaluation of the appearance and the consequences of a traumatic cataract requires a correct methodological approach with the support of qualified ophthalmological competences.
Department of Medical and Biological Sciences, Section of Forensic Medicine, University of Udine, Italy.
Carlo
C
Moreschi
Ugo
U
Da Broi
Paolo
P
Lanzetta
D002057:Burns, Chemical / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D002386:Cataract / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D004556:Electric Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D060733:Electromagnetic Radiation; D005104:Expert Testimony; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D049429:Forensic Pathology / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007906:Lens Subluxation / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009885:Ophthalmology