title: Free floating cyst in anterior chamber after cataract surgery.
abstract: We describe a free-floating cyst in the anterior chamber after cataract surgery in a 73-year-old woman who underwent uneventful phacoemulsification in her right eye (OD). The best-corrected visual acuity one week after surgery was 20/20 OD; however, six weeks later, she noted the onset of intermittent "shadows" in this eye whenever she changed head position. Slit lamp examination showed a round, free-floating, clear cyst (3-4 mm in diameter) that traversed the central visual axis during eye movement. The cyst was removed through a limbal incision, by expressing it gently out of the eye with viscoelastic injection into the anterior chamber. On pathological examination the inner wall of the cyst was lined with non-keratinized squamous epithelium, typical of ocular surface cells.
authors.affiliation: W K Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA. jbmalta@med.umich.edu
authors.forename: J B N S
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Malta
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Banitt
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Soong
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000867:Anterior Chamber; D003560:Cysts / Q000209:etiology*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018918:Phacoemulsification / Q000009:adverse effects*