'The disappearing lens': Failure of CT to image the lens in traumatic intumescent cataract

Yehoshua Almog; Irith Reider-Groswasser; Michaela Goldstein; Moshe Lazar; Yoram Segev; Orna Geyer

doi:10.1097/00004728-199905000-00005

'The disappearing lens': Failure of CT to image the lens in traumatic intumescent cataract

Yehoshua Almog^*, Irith Reider-Groswasser, Michaela Goldstein, Moshe Lazar, Yoram Segev, Orna Geyer

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	354-356
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
Volume	23
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/00004728-199905000-00005
State	Published - 1999

Keywords

Computed tomography
Eyes, abnormalities
Eyes, trauma
Lens

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