title: [Intraoperative complications in cataract surgery. A prospective study].
abstract: In a prospective study the important intraoperative complications encountered by two experienced and eight less experienced surgeons after 1708 cataract operations were analyzed. In 2.3% a lesion of the iris or iris sphincter occurred. The overall incidence of capsular ruptures was 0.94%. Zonular dialysis was found in 0.67%. If a severe intraoperative complication with a large capsular or zonular rupture is defined by the necessity for an anterior vitrectomy or the impossibility of implanting a standard posterior chamber lens, the rate of complications was about 0.4%. For the two experienced surgeons, only two anterior chamber lenses as stand-by lens were implanted out of 1500 operations.
authors.affiliation: Universitäts-Augenklinik, Klinikum Rudolf Virchow, Freie Universität Berlin.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wollensak
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Pham
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kraffel
mesh_terms: D002387:Cataract Extraction; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014821:Vitrectomy
vernacular_title: Intraoperative Komplikationen der Kataraktchirurgie. Eine prospektive Studie.