title: Crystalline coloboma.
abstract: METHODS
  We present a seventy-three year-old female diagnosed with lens coloboma when she was going to be operated on for cataracts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The incidence of congenital coloboma of the eye is estimated to be 0.5 per 10000 newborns in Spain, 1.4 in France, 2.6 in United States, and 7.5 in China. The diagnosis is clinical by observing the defect. The visual prognosis depends on the extent and severity of the coloboma. The treatment of the cataract was by phacoemulsification with an intraocular lens using a capsular tension ring.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, España. Electronic address: rosaliademetrio@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Demetrio
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, España.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Sancho
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, España.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rolón
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, España.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: del Campo
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, España.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Blanco
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001251:Astigmatism / Q000209:etiology; D003103:Coloboma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D018918:Phacoemulsification; D011379:Prognosis; D000072776:Slit Lamp Microscopy; D020255:Vitreous Detachment / Q000150:complications
keywords: Anillo de tensión capsular; Capsular tension ring; Cataract; Catarata; Coloboma; Cristalino; Crystalline; Lens