1210: How did this fragment get here?

Uday Devgan MD, ,

Time for a cataract quiz. You are doing a seemingly routine cataract surgery and you experience no complications and in fact, everything seemed to go quite well. At the end of the case, when you insert the IOL you notice a small lens fragment behind the posterior capsule, right in the center. How did this get here? And what are you going to do about it?

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Published by Uday Devgan MD

Professor Uday Devgan MD is a Los Angeles Cataract Surgeon who authors CataractCoach.com to teach the best techniques of Cataract Surgery to Eye Surgeons from around the world.