[Eyeball structure changes in high myopic patients and their significance for forensic assessment]

Fa Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2008 Oct;24(5):356-60.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

There are irreversible eyeball structural changes in high myopic patients. These changes include axial length, corneal radius, anterior chamber depth, fundus degeneration, macula thickness, etc. There is a close relationship between the damage degree of visual function and these changes. The incidence of complications, such as vitreous opacity, posterior vitreous detachment, cataract, glaucoma, posterior staphyloma and retina detachment, is also highly related to the myopia diopter. More and more researches have indicated that the myopia diopter and the level of visual function are affected by multiple factors. It is promising to detect all of these changes by different kinds of methods, and to assess visual function through these changes. By clarifying these changes, it is also useful to distinguish traumatic damage from disease to provide evidence for forensic assessment of eye injuries.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Eye / pathology*
  • Eye / physiopathology*
  • Forensic Medicine*
  • Humans
  • Myopia / pathology*
  • Vision, Ocular / physiology