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Case Reports
. 2013 Sep;27(9):1103-4.
doi: 10.1038/eye.2013.140. Epub 2013 Jun 28.

Posterior lens nucleus displacement following intravitreal injection

V Felcida  1 , S Habal, A K Tyagi
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Case Reports

Posterior lens nucleus displacement following intravitreal injection

V Felcida et al. Eye (Lond). 2013 Sep.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Slit-lamp photograph of the left eye obtained 6 days after the intravitreal injection, shows the presence of a traumatic cataract.
Figure 2
Figure 2
The ultrasonography B-scan image of the left eye shows the high-reflective, bi-convex, globular structure in the inferior vitreous cavity, suggestive of a posterior lens displacement (the arrow points to the lens). The retina was attached.
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