Unilateral, Isolated, Paediatric Lightning-Induced Cataract: A Case Report

A six-year-old girl presented with gradual loss of vision in the left eye a year after sustaining a lightning strike while in her home. Examination revealed healed burns to her cheek, left arm, and right leg and a dense left cataract. There was no evidence of other ocular sequelae, and her right eye...

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Autores principales: Rogers, G. J., Grotte, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/724395
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description A six-year-old girl presented with gradual loss of vision in the left eye a year after sustaining a lightning strike while in her home. Examination revealed healed burns to her cheek, left arm, and right leg and a dense left cataract. There was no evidence of other ocular sequelae, and her right eye was normal. Cataract surgery and lens implantation were performed on the left eye with good results. Isolated, unilateral, paediatric cataract due to lightning is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-33502952012-05-17 Unilateral, Isolated, Paediatric Lightning-Induced Cataract: A Case Report Rogers, G. J. Grotte, R. Case Rep Ophthalmol Med Case Report A six-year-old girl presented with gradual loss of vision in the left eye a year after sustaining a lightning strike while in her home. Examination revealed healed burns to her cheek, left arm, and right leg and a dense left cataract. There was no evidence of other ocular sequelae, and her right eye was normal. Cataract surgery and lens implantation were performed on the left eye with good results. Isolated, unilateral, paediatric cataract due to lightning is discussed. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011 2011-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3350295/ /pubmed/22606472 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/724395 Text en Copyright © 2011 G. J. Rogers and R. Grotte. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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