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Radiation-Induced Cataracts, Mouse and Rat

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Eye and Ear

Part of the book series: Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals ((LABORATORY))

Abstract

Cataracts in general, including radiation cataracts, are difficult to diagnose grossly in fixed specimens due to inability to distinguish lesions from lens fixation artifact. With intumescent cataracts the lens will be swollen; with hypermaturehypermature cataracts the lens will be shrunken with capsular wrinkling. Calcification and fibrous metaplasia will appear as localized white densities. In general, all forms of ionizing radiation give rise to cataracts that are similar in appearance, both clinically (as viewed with the slit-lamp biomicroscope) and histologically.

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  1. Robert L. Peiffer Jr.
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  1. ILSI Research Foundation, Harvard Medical School, 1126 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Washington, DC, 20036, USA

    Thomas Carlyle Jones D.V.M., D.Sc., Emeritus (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

  2. Institut für Experimentelle Pathologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Konstanty-Gutschow-Strasse 8, W-3000, Hannover 61, Federal Republic of Germany

    Ulrich Mohr M.D. (Professor of Experimental Pathology) (Professor of Experimental Pathology)

  3. New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, One Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA, 01772, USA

    Ronald Duncan Hunt D.V.M. (Professor of Comparative Pathology) (Professor of Comparative Pathology)

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Peiffer, R.L. (1991). Radiation-Induced Cataracts, Mouse and Rat. In: Jones, T.C., Mohr, U., Hunt, R.D. (eds) Eye and Ear. Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76640-4_14

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