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Do not try this at home: trash can intracapsular cataract extraction
Author(s) -
Lam Andrew,
Garg Sunir J
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical and experimental ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 1442-6404
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01519.x
Subject(s) - medicine , conjunctiva , lens (geology) , ophthalmology , surgery , optometry , optics , pathology , physics
A bstract The authors present a 39‐year‐old woman who sustained blunt trauma from a metal garbage can to her left eye and presented with her intact crystalline lens luxated subconjunctivally after expulsion through a scleral wound. External photographs show the lens found under intact conjunctiva and a computed tomography scan demonstrates the extrascleral lens. The patient had a ruptured globe repair and intraoperative photographs showed removal of the lens.