| 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 |
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