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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year : 2019  |  Volume : 67  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 137-138

Sunflower cataract in chalcosis bulbi


1 Guru Nanak Eye Centre, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Ophthalmology, EyeQ Superspeciality Hospital, New Delhi, India

Date of Web Publication21-Dec-2018

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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1035_18

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Agarwal R, Goel Y, Anand K. Sunflower cataract in chalcosis bulbi. Indian J Ophthalmol 2019;67:137-8

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Agarwal R, Goel Y, Anand K. Sunflower cataract in chalcosis bulbi. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2019 [cited 2024 Mar 28];67:137-8. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2019/67/1/137/248111



A 30-year-old man presented with low vision in the left eye for last 9 months following trauma with wire. His best-corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in the right eye and 20/200 in the left eye. Slit-lamp examination revealed flower-shaped brown opacities in the anterior and posterior pole of lens in the left eye [Figure 1]a. Yellow–brown granular deposition was seen in deeper layer of cornea (descemets membrane) all along the circumference of the corneoscleral junction suggestive of the Kayser–Fleischer ring [Figure 1]b. Fundus had focal pigmentary changes, chorioretinal atrophy, and a linear refractile foreign body approximately 3 mm long lying on the surface of retina inferotemporally [Figure 1]c. Non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) scan of orbit revealed a hyperdense speck in vitreous cavity abutting left posterolateral retina s/o foreign body [Figure 1]d. The patient was advised to undergo pars plana viterectomy with foreign body removal and cataract surgery. Sunflower cataract and Kayser–Fleisher ring are classically seen in copper-induced chalcosis bulbi.[1],[2]
Figure 1: Slit-lamp photograph showing sunflower cataract (a),  Kayser-Fleischer ring More Details (b), Fundus photograph (c), and non-contrast computed tomography orbit (d) suggestive of intraocular foreign body

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Ugarte M, Nicol DA, Jones NP, Charles SJ. Chronic intraocular copper foreign body and candida: A unique combination. Ocul Immunol Inflamm 2009;17:356-60.  Back to cited text no. 1
    
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Rao NA, Tso MO, Rosenthal AR. Chalcosis in the human eye. A clinicopathologic study. Arch Ophthalmol 1976;94:1379-84.  Back to cited text no. 2
    


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