SCLERAL PLAQUES
1974; Wiley; Volume: 52; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1111/j.1755-3768.1974.tb01762.x
ISSN1755-3768
Autores Tópico(s)Corneal surgery and disorders
ResumoA follow‐up (measurement by measuring ocular in the Haag Streit slit lamp) of 90 scleral plaques in 47 patients from 6 to 12 months after the primary examination showed the plaques to have increased in size: on an average 40% in height and 34% in breadth, growing more away from than towards the limbus corneae. The previously advanced theories concerning their cause: desiccation, poor blood supply, and mechanical muscular action, are discussed. The first theory is refutable by the growth direction of the plaque. The third one is borne out by the growth direction of the plaque, its site in front of the muscle insertion and by the plaque being found most frequently in front of the medial horizontal eye muscles.
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