Traumatic fracture of posterior chamber intraocular lens.
An 18-year-old man developed a fracture in a single-piece polymethylmethacrylate posterior chamber (PC) intraocular lens (IOL) at the optic-haptic junction with dislocation of the IOL into the anterior chamber after a fist injury to the eye. The dislocated IOL was explanted and replaced with another PC IOL.
Cornea and Anterior Segment Service, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. sujatadas@bei-lvpei.org
Sujata
S
Das
Manjunath D
MD
Patil
Prashant
P
Garg
D000293:Adolescent; D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D020878:Device Removal; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D008297:Male; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation
D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate