title: Surgery of traumatic cataracts.
abstract: Ninety eyes undergoing surgery for the removal of traumatic cataracts were evaluated. In the total group, the visual results fell generally into the 2 categories of satisfactory or poor. Most commonly, the latter patients sustained extensive preoperative trauma or were visually immature at the time of the injury. Forty-eight eyes, or 54% of this series, achieved an acuity of 20/80 or better, with 38, or 42%, achieving a corrected acuity of 20/20 to 20/30. There were 20 eyes in the patients 6 years of age and under, and a visual result of 20/60 or better was obtained in 7 of those eyes.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000550:Amblyopia / Q000628:therapy; D001036:Aphakia, Postcataract / Q000628:therapy; D002386:Cataract / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003261:Contact Lenses; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000293:injuries* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors