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"The disappearing lens": failure of CT to image the lens in traumatic intumescent cataract
Y Almog1, I Reider-Groswasser, M Goldstein
1Department of Ophthalmology, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
|May 29, 1999
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.
