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Laura D. Cook
Assistant Professor of Opthalmology, University of Virginia-Department of Opthalmology
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu  
434-924-5485

The Ophthalmology Residency Training Program at the University of Virginia was separated from Otolaryngology in 1947. Since 1978, it has been under the leadership of a full-time academic faculty. The Department currently serves as the ophthalmic referral center for central and western Virginia and parts of West Virginia, North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.

What are the most common signs and symptoms of sun damage to the eyes?

Laura D. Cook, M.D., Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine describes the various eye conditions that can be caused by sun damage.

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Host: What are most common signs and symptoms of sun damage to the eyes?

Dr. Laura D. Cook: The most common symptoms of sun damage depend on the diagnosis. If we are talking about skin cancer, it's going to be new lesions, new growths, areas that are non-healing and ulcerated, scabs that just won't go away, that type of thing. In terms of growth on the surface of the eye, again, it'll be or a cancer is on the surface of the eye, there will be some type of growth or some type of change that they will notice. Cataracts patients will notice changes in their vision, glare complaints and then solar retinopathy, corneal burns, those types of things are very acute and they will come to the physician for complaints of pain and decreased vision.

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