Cataracts Following Chronic Headbanging: A Report of Two Cases
Abstract
In order to assess the relationship between severe cataracts and violent headbanging, ophthalmologic examinations were performed on a random group of institutionalized headbangers; it was found that the majority had cataracts of varying maturity. The authors describe two patients, eight and ten years old, with cataracts subsequent to chronic headbanging and review recent theories attempting to explain it.
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