Phakolytic Glaucoma, Histology | |
Liquefied lens material diffuses into the anterior chamber and is ingested by macrophages. These accumulate on the Iris and in the chamber angle and thus lead to acute secondary open-angle glaucoma. | |
Machemer, Robert, M.D., Duke Univ. Medical School, Durham, NC, USA | |
H40.542 | |
Glaucomas, Ocular Hypertension -> Lens-Induced (Phakogenic) Glaucoma (see also angle closure glaucoma) -> Phakolytic Glaucoma | |
glaucomas | |
2939 |