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Year : 2019 | Volume
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An eye within an eye
Kowsigan Magesan1, Parthopratim Dutta Majumder2, Vikas Khetan3
1 Department of Optometry, Medical Research Foundations, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 2 Department of Uvea, Medical and Vision Research Foundations, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India 3 Department of Vitreoretina, Medical and Vision Research Foundations, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Date of Web Publication | 21-Dec-2018 |
Correspondence Address: Dr. Parthopratim Dutta Majumder Department of Uvea, Sankara Nethralaya, 18, College Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai - 600 006, Tamil Nadu India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1135_18
How to cite this article: Magesan K, Majumder PD, Khetan V. An eye within an eye. Indian J Ophthalmol 2019;67:139-40 |
An 18-year-old asymptomatic male visited us for a regular eye check-up. His best corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in both eyes. Slit-lamp examination revealed quiet anterior chamber; clear crystalline lens in both eyes; and a spherical, translucent, mobile cyst in the inferior part of anterior chamber of the right eye [Figure 1]a. His intraocular pressure was 12 mm of Hg in both eye, and fundus examination of both the eyes was unremarkable. Anterior segment optical coherence tomography through the inferior cornea from 4 to 7 o'clock hours revealed a prodigious appearance of “An eye within an eye” [Figure 1]b. Iris cysts in children are uncommon and can pose significant diagnostic and treatment challenge to the treating ophthalmologists.[1] Unlike secondary iris cysts that follow surgical or nonsurgical trauma, primary iris cysts are stationary lesions, which rarely progress or lead to severe complications such as inflammation and glaucoma.[2],[3] Primary iris cyst in an asymptomatic child usually does not require any treatment, and unnecessary surgical intervention can lead to increased risk of operative complications during an amblyogenic age.[4] | Figure 1: (a) Slit-lamp photograph of the right eye showing a spherical, translucent, mobile cyst in the inferior part of anterior chamber. (b) Anterior segment optical coherence tomography through the inferior cornea from 4 to 7 o'clock hours giving an appearance of ‘An eye within an eye’ with iris cyst at the centre
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