EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology
Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
Category: Trauma
Diagnosis: Chalcosis
Image Comments:
The patient was one-eyed when he sustained a pellet injury to his remaining eye.A peripheral iridectomy was performed during the course of surgery. Slit-lamp examination revealed corneal and lens changes due to the effect of the copper in the forign body that entered the eye.
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