title: A pars plana approach for cataract surgery in posterior lenticonus.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the management and outcome of cataract surgery and intraocular lens placement in a child with unilateral posterior lenticonus.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report. A 7-year-old boy with a best-corrected visual acuity of RE, 20/200, posterior lenticonus, and cataract underwent a pars plana lensectomy, vitrectomy, posterior chamber intraocular lens insertion into the ciliary sulcus, and central anterior capsulotomy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  At 2 years of follow-up, best-corrected visual acuity was RE, 20/40.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This technique allowed complete removal of the opaque posterior lenticonus plaque while preserving the peripheral anterior capsule for sulcus fixation of the posterior chamber intraocular lens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, FL, USA.
authors.forename: B D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Simons
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Flynn
mesh_terms: D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007905:Lens Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D008297:Male; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014821:Vitrectomy
chemical_list: D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate