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Abstract
Incomplete rupture of the zonule with the displaced lens remaining behind the pupil. In dislocation, or complete rupture, the lens is displaced forward into the anterior chamber or backward into the vitreous body. When congenital, this condition is known as ECTOPIA LENTIS.
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- Lens Subluxations
- Subluxation, Lens
- Subluxations, Lens
- Lens Dislocation
- Lens Dislocation and Subluxation
- Dislocation, Lens
- Dislocations, Lens
- Lens Dislocations
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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spontaneous or traumatic; luxation = total disloc, subluxation = partial disloc
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90; was LENS DISLOCATION AND SUBLUXATION 1978-89
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- Eye Diseases (1966-1977)
- Eye Injuries (1966-1977)
- Lens, Crystalline (1966-1977)
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- National Library of Medicine. Lens Subluxation. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007906. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007906
- Lens Subluxation. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18554068