title: Advantages of using newly developed quartz contact lens with slit illumination from operating microscope.
abstract: The purpose of this article is to report the characteristics and advantages of using a newly designed quartz contact lens with slit illumination from an operating microscope for intraocular surgery. The new contact lens is made of quartz. The lens is convex-concave and is used in combination with slit illumination from an operating microscope. The optical properties of quartz make this lens less reflective with greater transmittance. The combination of a quartz contact lens with slit illumination provided a brighter and wider field of view than conventional lenses. This system enabled us to perform bimanual vitrectomy and scleral buckling surgery without indirect ophthalmoscope. Small intraocular structures in the posterior pole or in the periphery were detected more easily. In conclusion, the newly designed quartz lens with slit beam illumination from an operating microscope provided a bright, clear and wide surgical field, and allowed intraocular surgery to be performed more easily.
authors: Department of Ophthalmology, Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital, 2-1-1 Tomioka, Urayasu 279-0021, Japan.
authors: Masatoshi
authors: M
authors: Kiyokawa
authors: Toshiro
authors: T
authors: Sakuma
authors: Noriko
authors: N
authors: Hatano
authors: Atsushi
authors: A
authors: Mizota
authors: Minoru
authors: M
authors: Tanaka
mesh_terms: D003261:Contact Lenses; D004867:Equipment Design; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008029:Lighting / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008853:Microscopy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D011791:Quartz; D012591:Scleral Buckling / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014821:Vitrectomy / Q000295:instrumentation*
chemical_list: D011791:Quartz