title: Dislocation of a scleral-fixated, posterior chamber intraocular lens after fixation suture removal.
abstract: A 58-year-old man's posterior chamber intraocular lens dislocated after a transscleral fixation suture was removed during a routine eye examination. The lens had to be repositioned. A scleral flap over the fixation sutures and a better understanding by general ophthalmologists of transscleral fixation suturing would have prevented this complication.
authors.affiliation: Goldschleger Eye Institute, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, Israel.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cahane
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Avni
mesh_terms: D002387:Cataract Extraction; D006801:Humans; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012590:Sclera / Q000601:surgery*; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000009:adverse effects*