Open AccessSingle lens to lens duplication: The missing link
Author(s) -
Rupal Bhatt,
Jitendra Jethani,
Praveen Saluja,
Vinay Bharti
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/0301-4738.37601
Subject(s) - lens (geology) , medicine , aphakia , optometry , etiology , ophthalmology , optics , visual acuity , pathology , physics
Congenital anomalies of the lens include a wide range from lens coloboma to primary aphakia and doubling of lens. There have been few case reports of double lens; the etiology suggested is metaplastic changes in the surface ectoderm that leads to formation of two lens vesicles and hence resulting in double lens. We report a case with bilobed lens, which raises the possibility of explaining the etiology of double lens.