Retrocapsular lens fragments after uneventful phacoemulsification cataract surgery.

摘要

Ang and coauthors have described an interesting finding of "retrocapsular lens fragments" in 84 of 506 patients who had uneventful phacoemulsification cataract surgery. The incidence of retrocapsular lens matter is reported to be 16.6% with an experienced surgeon using standard techniques. However, the observations of Ang and coauthors are inconsistent with our cytological examinations of the anterior vitreous specimens immediately after phacoemusification in combined phacovitreoretinal surgery.We studied the ultracentrifuge cytospin preparation for 12 anterior vitreous samples from patients who had just had uneventful phacoemulsification. No lens matter or anything similar could be identified under microscopic examination by an experienced pathologist (EC.) (unpublished data). This finding obviously deviates from the finding of Ang and coauthors.