title: Detachment of descemet's membrane with insertion of an intraocular lens.
abstract: The complication of Descemet's membrane detaching during cataract surgery is rare. Awareness that this can happen is especially important now that so many intraocular lenses are being implanted. A case is presented where a detachment was not noticed and an intraocular lens stripped Descemet's membrane from the corneal stroma.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003315:Cornea / Q000473:pathology; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D003886:Descemet Membrane; D004727:Endothelium / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous