A Case of Electric Cataracts in both Eyes

A case of electric cataracts in both eyes were presented. A 23 year old Korean Air-Forced soldier touched his right shoulder to a 22,900 volt, alternating current electric line on Feb. 15, 1972. He was unconcious for 25 hours and amnesic for 3 days. Also he sustained third or second degree burn on the neck, right hand and forearm, both lower extremities and superficial burns of the other body surface. Diminition of vision was first noted on April 15, 1972. When examined his vision on Aug. 14, 1972, the left eye was 20/100 and the right eye 20/30. And there were multiple fine scattered ant. subcapsular lens opacities in both eyes and left eye showed more numerous lens opacitities than right eye. By Dec. 27, 1972 there was a definite increase of the lens opacity in both eyes with marked post. subcapsular opacity and diffuse cortical hazy of the left eye. Vision was dropped to 20/70 in the right and hand movements in the left eye. For the left eye extracapsular lens extraction was done without any complication on Dec. 28, 1972. On July 10, 1973 the vision of the right eye was reduced to hand movements due to ant. and post. subcapsular opacities as well as cortical haze. On Sep. 27, 1973 extracapsular lens extraction was done. Vision was corrected as 20/20 in both eyes after operation and there were no complications.

The Clinical Survey of the Strabismus in Children

The authors studied the strabiEmus of 50 cases in children under six years of age. A total of 50 cases were screened in out patient department from April 1972 to July 1973. The results are as followings: Among them, 28 cases of exotropia, 18 cases of exotropia and 4 cases of hypertropia were observed. Generally, there were more female than male. According to the refractive status, there were more hypertropia among esotropia and more myopia among exotropia. There were only 3 cases those visual acuity were below 0.1 and the remainder were above 0.1. According to the age, there were 11 cases under the 2 yrs of age, 15 cases in the age 3 yrs to 4 yrs and 20 cases over 6 yrs. The onset of 36 cases were so incidious that were unknown and those of 8 cases were gradual. The strabismus were markedly detected under the 1 year of age (26 cases) and 31 cases were alternating type and 15 cases were monocular. And it \vas interesting fact that 19 cases were first child.

One Case of Intra-Orbital Hemangio-endothelioma

Here, we report one case of intra-orbital hemangio-endothelioma. The patient was a Korean male aged 37. The most outstanding complaint was exophthalmos of the left eye. His left eye began to protrude insidiously without pain since 4 years ago. A soft movable mass was palpated on the medial portion of the upper orbital margin and the ocular motility was limited to upward, but ocular deviation was not present. Pathologic diagnosis was intra-orbital hemangio-endothelioma, sclerotic, borderline malignancy. This tumor was well encapsulated and any evidence of involving bone and soft tissue was not found. The size of was 2cm X 2.5cm X 3.5cm. Extirpation was performed by means of superior orbital approach. Tumor mass was removed entirely with finger dissection. The vision was not changed but the cosmetic result was satisfactory.