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Phacolytic Acute Open-Angle Glaucoma

Phacolytic Acute Open-Angle Glaucoma
Corneal edema. Massive flare by amorphic lens material and macrophages in the anterior chamber. Deep anterior chamber with sunken brunscent lens nucleous. This condition is an absolute indication for lens removal.
Michelson, Georg, Prof. Dr. med., Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Augenklinik, Erlangen, Deutschland
H40.542
Anterior Chamber -> Inflammation (Flare, Cells, Fibrin, Hypopyon, Precipitates), Phacolytic Glaucoma, (see also Anterior Uveitis) -> Flare (Tyndall)
secondary open-angle glaucoma; lens; cornea, emergency
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