A laboratory animal model for phacoemulsification practice.
A human cataract, removed in its capsule, and implanted in either the anterior or posterior aqueous chamber of a rabbit eye, provided a model system that simulated a clinical case of human senile cataract. Such a model can be used for practice surgery or for evaluation of an instrument designed to remove a cataract through a small incision.
D000818:Animals; D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000601:surgery; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000637:transplantation; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000193:education; D011817:Rabbits; D014183:Transplantation, Heterologous; D014464:Ultrasonic Therapy; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000601:surgery