Burns by caustic soda
by Jes Mortensen

Video Atlas of Ophthalmic Surgery

by Ashok Garg
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The background for this case is very sad. The patient is a little boy born August 2008. At the age of three a male friend of his mother punished him by placing a grain of caustic soda in the little boys eye. The mother flushed the eye with water through-fully. But in spite of that thinning of the cornea, heavy synechia developed. For the first 2 years, visual acuity was 20/40; but now before the operation visual acuity deteriorated to counting fingers. The bulb was locked to the inside of the lo

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