title: [A study of suitable age for intraocular lens implantation in children according to ocular anatomy and development].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the suitable age for intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in children.
  
  
  METHODS
  240 (240 eyes) normal children aged 3-13 years old were selected. Their corneal refraction, anterior chamber depth, lens thickness and ocular axial length were measured with Roden-Stock Keratometer C-MES and Eyescan Model 55 separately.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The corneal refraction of 3-year-old children, the anterior chamber depth and lens thickness after 5 years old, and the ocular axial length after 9 years old approach the adult magnitude.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A 3-year-old child has been qualified with IOL implantation, the child younger than 9 years old should be implanted with a normal adult IOL and then corrected with glasses, and a child after 10 years old should be directly implanted with a proper dioptric IOL.
authors.affiliation: Shanxi Ophthalmic Hospital, Taiyuan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jia
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D000886:Anthropometry; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005123:Eye / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000254:growth & development; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D008297:Male; D012029:Refraction, Ocular