A Case of Liquefied Posterior Capsular Opacification.
- Author:
Joo Hwa LEE
1
;
Chul Ho GO
;
Myung Jin JOO
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Sanggye Paik Hospital, College of Medicine,Inje University, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Liquefied posterior capsular opacification;
Continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis
- MeSH:
Cataract;
Female;
Humans;
Korea;
Lasers, Solid-State;
Phacoemulsification
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1999;40(9):2632-2635
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Among the complications of cataract surgery, the reported frequency of posterior capsular opacification was 20~50 percent. We experienced a case of new type of posterior capsular opacification in the seventy-one year old woman patient, who undertook the cataract operation with phacoemulsification six years ago and visited our hospital with the decreased vision. With biomicroscopic examination, posterior capsular opacification, creating a closed chamber between the lens and the posterior capsule in which a liquefied, milky white substance accumulates was detected. The patient was treated with Nd: YAG laser capsulotomy. To our knowledge, there has been no reported case of liquefied posterior capsular opacification in Korea. Therefore we report this case with literature review.
