Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS -OCT) as a useful tool to identify retained lens fragments in the anterior chamber
- Resource Type
- Authors
- James Myerscough; Chrishan Duminda Gunasekera; Harry W Roberts; Haseeb Akram
- Source
- BMJ case reports. 14(10)
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Anterior Chamber
medicine.medical_treatment
General Medicine
Phacoemulsification
eye diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Optical coherence tomography
Anterior Eye Segment
Lens (anatomy)
Ophthalmology
Lens, Crystalline
medicine
Humans
sense organs
business
Pseudophakic bullous keratopathy
Tomography, Optical Coherence
- Language
- ISSN
- 1757-790X
We report a case of pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK) in which clinical examination failed to identify a retained lens fragment (RLF) which was subsequently diagnosed using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) A 79-year-old man underwent routine phacoemulsification in the