EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor: William Charles Caccamise, Sr, MD, Retired Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

*Dr. Caccamise has very generously shared his images of patients taken while operating during the "eye season" in rural India as well as those from his private practice during the 1960's and 1970's. Many of his images are significant for their historical perspective and for techniques and conditions seen in settings in undeveloped areas.

Category: Cataract

The ultimate in heterochromia, right eye

This Indian male adult demonstrated a normal dark-brown iris OD. His right iris was otherwise - a cerulean blue. Cataract surgery had been performed OD.

The usual other stigmata of Fuchs' heterochromic cyclitis were not present on slit-lamp examination. In Dr. Caccamise's experience in India, most of the Indian cases were on a chronic anterior uveitis basis.

a binocular view - OD aphakic with profound heterochromia.

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