TY - JOUR PY - 1977// TI - Ocular involvement due to the juice of Dieffenbachia plants (author's transl) JO - Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde (1963) A1 - Egerer, I. SP - 128 EP - 130 VL - 170 IS - 1 N2 - Upon breaking the stem or the branches of a Dieffenbachia plant juice is released in an explosive manner and may thus involve the eye. A myriad of fine calcium-oxalate crystals penetrate into all layers of the cornea, and an iritis can develop. The latter ceases within 6 days, the corneal cristals vanish within about three weeks.

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