Subconjunctival phacocele: an unusual complication of cataract surgery.
There have been numerous reports of subconjunctival dislocation of the lens resulting from nonsurgical trauma. This paper is the first to describe such a dislocation following surgical trauma (unplanned extracapsular cataract extraction).
D000368:Aged; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003229:Conjunctival Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007906:Lens Subluxation / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications