Volume : IX, Issue : III, March - 2019

A STUDY ON ETIOLOGY OF PEDIATRIC CATARACT

Dr Ajit Kumar, Dr Punit Parasurampuria

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Cataract is responsible for the blindness in children. 344 children participated in the current study. Out of these 344 cases, 224 had non–traumatic cataract and 120 had traumatic cataract. The mean age of the children in non–traumatic group was observed to be 5.63± 3.59 years. On the other hand, the mean age in traumatic group was found to be 7.39 ± 3.94 years. Hereditary was observed in 84 cases of non–traumatic cataract. Pediatric cataract is mostly found in children of age between 0 and 14. The major cause of child blindness is supposed to be this pediatric cataract. Cataract in children is caused due to trauma, heredity and metabolic diseases etc. The current paper highlights the etiology of pediatric cataract

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A STUDY ON ETIOLOGY OF PEDIATRIC CATARACT, Dr Ajit Kumar, Dr Punit Parasurampuria INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-9 | Issue-3 | March-2019

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