Systemic corticosteroid therapy recently has been postulated as an etiologic factor in
formation of posterior subcapsular cataracts, 1-3 with 39% to 42% incidence of posterior …

A group of 56 patients who had received sustained, systemic corticosteroid therapy were
examined in order to determine the incidence of posterior subcapsular cataracts. Thirty-eight …

IN MAY, 1960, the rheumatologists of this group were contacted by Black and Bunim
concerning their study then in progress, which revealed a 39 per cent incidence of posterior …

Posterior subcapsular cataracts (PSC) had not been described as an adverse effect of
corticosteroid therapy until Black et al 1 published their first report in 1960. In this and …

A previous report by us 1 has detailed the occurrence of posterior subcapsular cataracts
(PSC) in 5 of 22 (23%) rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with 10-16 mg. of prednisone or …

A previous communication by the authors related the development of posterior subcapsular
cataracts (PSC) to long-term high dose corticosteroid therapy, 1 and a subsequent paper 2 …

Centrally placed opacities lying under the capsuleatthe posteriorpart of the lens-posterior
subcapsular cataracts (PSC)-have beenreported in 12.5 to 6o per cent.(mean 36-7 per cent.) …

POSTERIOR subcapsular cataracts (PSC) are generally associated with exposure to toxic
agents, posterior intraocular disease, ionizing radiation, or blunt trauma. As a rule these …

I do not reject the use of statistics, but I do condemn not going beyond them.—Claude
Bernard To the Editor:—In the spring of 1960 Drs. Black and Bunim of the National Institutes …

Steroid cataract is a late discovery in the spectrum of maleficent side-effects of corticosteroid
administration. The first awareness must be credited to von Sallmann's group at the NIH in …