Isolated Microspherophakia Presenting with Angle-Closure Glaucoma

We report a case of 13-year-old girl presenting to our clinic with blurred vision in both eyes. Ophthalmic examination revealed high myopia and angle-closure glaucoma due to pupillary block caused by small, spherical crystalline lenses. Treatment approaches to glaucoma in patients with microspheroph...

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Autores principales: Şimşek, Tülay, Beyazyıldız, Emrullah, Şimşek, Enver, Öztürk, Faruk
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Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5200837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28058167
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.47135
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author Şimşek, Tülay
Beyazyıldız, Emrullah
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description We report a case of 13-year-old girl presenting to our clinic with blurred vision in both eyes. Ophthalmic examination revealed high myopia and angle-closure glaucoma due to pupillary block caused by small, spherical crystalline lenses. Treatment approaches to glaucoma in patients with microspherophakia are discussed in this case report.
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spelling pubmed-52008372017-01-05 Isolated Microspherophakia Presenting with Angle-Closure Glaucoma Şimşek, Tülay Beyazyıldız, Emrullah Şimşek, Enver Öztürk, Faruk Turk J Ophthalmol Case Report We report a case of 13-year-old girl presenting to our clinic with blurred vision in both eyes. Ophthalmic examination revealed high myopia and angle-closure glaucoma due to pupillary block caused by small, spherical crystalline lenses. Treatment approaches to glaucoma in patients with microspherophakia are discussed in this case report. Galenos Publishing 2016-10 2016-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5200837/ /pubmed/28058167 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.47135 Text en ©Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology, Published by Galenos Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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Isolated Microspherophakia Presenting with Angle-Closure Glaucoma
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title_full Isolated Microspherophakia Presenting with Angle-Closure Glaucoma
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title_short Isolated Microspherophakia Presenting with Angle-Closure Glaucoma
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