Eyeball structure changes in high myopic patients and their significance for forensic assessment.
- Author:
Yi-Chang LIU
1
;
Wen-Tao XIA
;
Xing-Tao ZHOU
;
Rui-Jue LIU
;
Shi-Zhong BIAN
;
Chong-Liang YING
;
Guang-You ZHU
Author Information
1. Department of Forensic Medicine, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. liuyichang2008@21cn.com
- Publication Type:Review
- MeSH:
Eye/physiopathology*;
Forensic Medicine;
Humans;
Myopia/pathology*;
Vision, Ocular/physiology*
- From:
Journal of Forensic Medicine
2008;24(5):356-360
- CountryChina
- Language: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.
