FOREIGN BODY IN THE VITREOUS CHAMBER.

Foreign Body Embedded in Anterior Chamber Angle

Introduction. We present a case of a metallic foreign body embedded in the anterior chamber angle. After standing in close proximity to a construction worker breaking a tile, a 26-year-old woman using soft contact lens for the correction of mild myopia presented to emergency department for evaluation of a foreign body sensation of her right eye. Methods and Results. Diagnosis was confirmed by g...

Presenting as an anterior chamber foreign body

A woman aged 31, first seen in April, i969, had recently come to live in England from India. She complained of poor vision in the right eye and of a divergent squint. Her vision had been poor since early childhood, particularly in the right eye, and there had ceased to be useful vision in the right eye at the age of 20. An operation had been performed on the right eye under local anaesthesia wh...

Removal of a Non-magnetic Foreign Body from the Vitreous.

Anterior chamber lens implantation after vitreous loss.

Vitreous loss is a serious complication of cataract surgery. Following vitreous loss it is common practice to perform a primary implantation of an anterior chamber lens (AC-IOL). We retrospectively analysed 642 consecutive cases of cataract extraction performed between 1983 and 1986 with special attention to those patients in whom vitreous loss occurred and an AC-IOL was placed. There were 27 s...

Naturally occurring vitreous chamber-based myopia in the Labrador retriever.

PURPOSE To investigate whether myopia is present in a breed of domestic dog, the Labrador retriever, and how the ocular components are related to refractive error in this breed. METHODS Cycloplegic refractive error was measured in 75 Labrador retrievers by retinoscopy. Corneal and crystalline lens radii of curvature were measured in the right eyes of 57 of these dogs using a video-based kerat...