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Growth spurt in a lens with a posterior subcapsular cataract
G A Shun-Shin1, A J Bron, N P Brown
1Clinical Cataract Research Unit, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Oxford, UK.
International Ophthalmology
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
Over a period of 5 years, the lenses of a patient with a unilateral posterior subcapsular cataract were documented using Scheimpflug slit-image photography. For the first time ever, a growth spurt was observed of the cataractous lens. It is postulated that this could be a reflection of either a mitotic spurt of the lens epithelium or a failure of compaction of the deeper lens fibres.