Adenoma of the nonpigmented ciliary epithelium developed in a 36-year-old woman, causing decreased visual acuity and a total cataract in the involved eye. Ultrasound biomicroscopy disclosed associated persistent hyperplasic primary vitreous (PHPV). Sectoral cyclectomy with removal of the mass and intracapsular cataract extraction were performed, and the tumor was submitted for histological exam...

OPTIC neuritis is a rare sequel of cataract extraction. Reese and Carroll (1958) described seventeen cases, of which nine were their own. Three of the patients, who had both eyes operated on, suffered the same complication in the second eye, but seven other patients had no complications in the second eye. They had found no other definite cases in the literature, and we have found only two furth...

Peribulbar and retrobulbar anaesthesia are commonly used techniques in cataract extraction. They offer satisfactory analgesia and akinesia but serious complications although uncommon are consistently reported. Intravenous sedation combined with a facial nerve block offers an alternative method of anaesthesia. This is a retrospective study of patients who underwent extracapsular cataract extract...

PURPOSE To use the techniques of survival analysis to analyze the incidence of anterior subcapsular opacities (symptomatic and asymptomatic) and clinically significant cataract in the US Food and Drug Administration clinical trial of the Visian Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL). METHODS Five hundred twenty-six eyes were followed for an average of 4.7 years; 89% (468 eyes), 73% (384 eyes), and 5...