Surgical repair of a traumatized shrunken eye.
A 50-year-old Japanese man underwent removal of a traumatic cataract with an intralenticular foreign body. Surgery was complicated by an unplanned extracapsular delivery of the lens and vitreous loss. Two years later, with a visual acuity of hand motions and signs of phthisis bulbi, he had a vitrectomy that cleared the media to reveal a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. The detachment was treated by cryopexy, scleral buckling, and intraocular gas injection. One year after this combined procedure, his best corrected visual acuity was 20/400 with clear media and attached retina.
D001284:Atrophy; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D003503:Cyclobutanes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000188:drug therapy
D003503:Cyclobutanes