CEA Filali*, F Chraibi, A Bennis, M Abdellaoui and IA Benatiya
Ophthalmology Department, Hospital Hassan II, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed Ben Abdallah University, Fez, Morocco
*Corresponding Author: CEA Filali, Ophthalmology Department, Hospital Hassan II, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Mohammed Ben Abdallah University, Fez, Morocco.
Received: February 29, 2020; Published: April 30, 2020
Purpose: To detail the clinical picture and the diagnostic procedure, and to update the therapeutic management.
Setting: Ophthalmology Department, Hospital Hassan II, fez.
Observation: An 11-year-old boy, a young farmer, without notion of consanguinity or similar familiar cases, visited us with one year history of progressive decline in visual acuity and photophobia. Visual acuity was 6/10 in both eyes. Slit lamp biomicroscopy examination found a very embarrassed child by the light, a conjunctival thickening interesting palpebral fissure and subscapular cataract, no ocular hypertension and a normal fundus examination in both eyes. General examination revealed erythematous and papular lesions on the face, the forearms and the dorsal hands, which are itchy, evolving by relapses and remissions, and exacerbated by solar exposure.
A skin biopsy was performed and histopathology disclosed a psoriasiform and spongiotic dermatosis with focal lichenoid reaction in favor of polymorphous light eruption. There were no abnormal laboratory findings, including antinuclear antibody and porphyria profiles. Thus, we diagnosed the patient with PLE complicated by bilateral cataract provoked by overlap solar exposure.
Conclusion: Our case, considered as first reported in the literature, encourages good ocular protection against UV at a young age, due to possible complications.
Keywords: Polymorphous Light Eruption; Child; Cataract
Citation: CEA Filali., et al. “Case of Childhood Bilateral Cataract Complicating a Polymorphous Light Eruption”. Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 3.5 (2020): 69-71.
Copyright: © 2020 CEA Filali., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.