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Growth spurt in a lens with a posterior subcapsular cataract

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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 the deeper lens fibres.

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  1. Clinical Cataract Research Unit, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Oxford, UK

    G. Adrien Shun-Shin, Anthony J. Bron & Nicholas P. Brown

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Shun-Shin, G.A., Bron, A.J. & Brown, N.P. Growth spurt in a lens with a posterior subcapsular cataract. Int Ophthalmol 15, 87–91 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046427

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