[Primary malignant glaucoma].

M Călugăru; C Marin

PubMed · 2101043

[Primary malignant glaucoma].

Abstract

The authors present two cases of classical unilateral malignant glaucomas, having at the congeneric eye, a chronic primary glaucoma with extremely advanced blocked angle. The evolution of these two cases might indicate the possibility of transforming the chronic primary glaucoma with blocked angle into a primitive malignant glaucoma (spontaneous). The probable dynamics of these changes is described.

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