- Can be caused by penetrating or non-penetrating injuries to the
globe.
- Clinical features:
- Symptoms:
- Glare
- Blurry vision
- Monocular diplopia
- Signs:
- Absence of sectoral iris tissue
- Often associated with cataract
- In an emergency case, it is often associated with hyphema
and other ocular structures defects such as rupture globe,
conjunctival or corneal laceration and cataract
- Management:
- Careful routine examination of ocular injuries.
- Supportive with sunglasses, tinted contact lens or contact
lens with artificial pupil.
Surgical iridoplasty in patients with severe and intolerable symptoms.
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