Angle-closure glaucoma with pupillary block mechanism in cicatricial retinopathy of prematurity.

Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.

Ophthalmologica. 1988;196(1):15-8. doi: 10.1159/000309868.

A 22-year-old man with mild cicatricial retinopathy of prematurity without retrolental mass developed angle-closure glaucoma following pupillary block mechanism. A large lens and a shallow anterior chamber of the premature eye contributed to this mechanism.