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Choroid Neoplasms/diagnosis , Melanoma/diagnosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Fluorescein Angiography , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Prognosis , Retinitis/diagnosisSubject(s)
Eye Injuries/pathology , Wounds, Penetrating/pathology , Adolescent , Adult , Chad , Child , Eye Injuries/etiology , Eye Injuries/therapy , Female , Gabon , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
In developing countries, cataract affects many young but also poor patients. They have difficulties to get operated and generally cannot afford to buy spectacles. Implanting artificial crystalline lens is, then, theorically the best solution. This skillfull technique, nevertheless, requires a high level sanitary environment. Recent advances in the surgical treatment of cataract and postoperative correction of aphakia minimized its risks. Improvements in plastics technology give new possibilities. A study of the various techniques available and of the changes required in the sanitary environment of developing countries give some hope for a possibility of using artificial crystalline lens in these countries.
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Cataract Extraction , Developing Countries , Lenses, Intraocular , Cataract/pathology , Cataract Extraction/adverse effects , HumansABSTRACT
A case of a trachoma at scar-stage with entropion-trichiasis is recorded. The patient was a white woman having spent her whole life in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Islands which are not affected by trachoma. The authors, then, review the present trends about the extraocular and ocular diseases caused by Chlamydia trachomatis.
