title: Traumatic subconjunctival crystalline lens dislocation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the clinical features and visual outcomes in patients with traumatic subconjunctival crystalline lens dislocation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Izmir Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, Izmir, Turkey.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical records of 5 patients with subconjunctival crystalline lens dislocation secondary to blunt trauma were reviewed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The median age of 3 women and 2 men was 63 years (range 62 to 73 years). The lenses were dislocated to the superior (n = 1), temporal (n = 1), superotemporal (n = 1), and superonasal (n = 2) quadrants. All patients had various degrees of hyphema and vitreous hemorrhage. One patient had traumatic optic neuropathy. Visual acuity improved in all patients after lens removal and scleral rupture repair.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  With timely intervention, the visual outcome was reasonably good in patients with subconjunctival dislocation of the crystalline lens.
authors.affiliation: Izmir Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Department of Ophthalmology, Izmir, Turkey. nsefi@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Nazife Sefi
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Yurdakul
authors.forename: Seyda
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uğurlu
authors.forename: Ayça
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maden
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000293:injuries*; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006988:Hyphema / Q000209:etiology; D007906:Lens Subluxation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014823:Vitreous Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*