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EGON LORENZ, Ph.D.; THELMA B. DUNN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1950;43(4):742-749.

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MUCH HAS been written concerning cataract formation in experimental animals and in man following local roentgen and radium irradiation of the eye. The literature on this subject was exhaustively reviewed by Desjardins¹ in 1931 and by Warren² in 1943. Since most of the experimental work was published in the early part of the century, many of the data given on dosage and other conditions of irradiation cannot be reliably interpreted in terms of present standards. Nevertheless, the following effects were clearly established: 1. Irradiation often produces an irreversible opacity of the lens. 2. The lens is considerably more radiosensitive in immature, rapidly growing animals than in mature animals. 3. In immature animals irradiation frequently affects not only the lens but also the retina, while in mature animals only the lens is affected. In 1942 Poppe³ described experiments in which the eyes of adult rabbits were exposed to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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BETHESDA, MD.

Footnotes
This paper is based largely on work performed under contract W-31-109-eng.-38 for the Manhattan Project at the Argonne National Laboratory.

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