Cyanate-Induced Cataracts in Patients With Sickle-Cell Hemoglobinopathies
- 1 June 1976
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 94 (6) , 927-930
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1976.03910030465005
Abstract
• Two young patients developed bilateral posterior subcapsular cataracts while receiving oral sodium cyanate for treatment of sickle cell hemoglobinopathy. In one of the patients, lens opacities regressed spontaneously after cyanate therapy was discontinued.Keywords
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