Coronary Cataract. Slitlamp and retroillumination view of bilateral coronary cataract demonstrating club-shaped and focal dots opacities distributed radially in the deep cortex.

Usually sporadic or occasionally familial Has also been described as dominantly inherited Categorized as zonular cataract because the opacities occur in only one region of the lens, the deep cortex around the nucleus Clinical features: Symptoms: usually asymptomatic because of their peripheral location Signs: Club-shaped, oval, discrete opacities Commonly associated with focal dot opacities Distributed in a radial pattern surrounding the nucleus like a crown

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