Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4024448 | Journal Français d'Ophtalmologie | 2011 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The cataract or opacification of the lens raises, in the child, two problems: of clinical diagnosis but especially of action to be taken therapeutic in particular surgical in front of a juvenille lens. This leads to a step and a therapeutic strategy, which must, individually, weigh the advantages and the disadvantages of the surgery. It is a frequent cause of visual handicap in the child. In the event of unilaterality, the major risks are the amblyopia and the aniseiconia. The elements to be analyzed are linked or the bilaterality, the type and the importance of opacity, local or general associated malformations, precocity diagnoses, and with regard to the treatment, the potential surgical complications, the quality of the optical correction, the postoperative assumption of responsibility and the cooperation of the parents. In all the cases, it will always be necessary to treat the functional part of the amblyopia.
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Authors
S. Milazzo, P. Turut, D. Brémond-Gignac,