Discussion of factors responsible for retinal detachments and other late complications after intraocular lens implantation.
A comparison of the incidence of the major postoperative complications of lens implant surgery with those of simple intracapsular cataract surgery shows that eyes implanted with pupil supported lenses fare the same or worse as those submitted to extraction alone, whilst eyes implanted with true posterior chamber lenses after extracapsular surgery do better in all observed respects.
D002387:Cataract Extraction; D006801:Humans; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D008269:Macular Edema / Q000209:etiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000209:etiology*; D014792:Visual Acuity