Effect of lens extraction in pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule.

نویسنده

  • W E Gillies
چکیده

It is a matter of considerable clinical interest whether removal of the lens causes regression of pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule. Before the paper by Dvorak-Theobald (I954), pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule was often confused with true exfoliation, and it was suggested that lens extraction caused the condition to disappear (Irvine, I940; Gradle and Sugar, I947). After this paper appeared the effect of lens extraction on pseudoexfoliation was in doubt as the origin of the pseudoexfoliative material was uncertain.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of ophthalmology

دوره 57 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1973