This patient sustained severe ocular trauma that resulted in loss of more than 180 degrees of zonular support. He has … More
Tag: weak zonular support
1144: white cataract intra-capsular surgery
Decades ago the standard cataract surgery was an intra-capsular cataract extraction. This involved making a large incision, injecting alpha chymotrypsin … More
1133: Capsule grabbed with phaco probe
Ideally, you want the tip of the phaco probe to stay in the central zone of the anterior segment and … More
1068: sutured capsular tension segment
This patient was born with a lens coloboma where part of the crystalline lens did not develop and there is … More
1053: that’s not cortex you’re pulling!
In this anonymously submitted video, we see that if the capsule is inadvertently grabbed by the suction from the I/A … More
This subtle sign indicates weak zonules!
This is a very subtle sign — looking at this title pic, we see a demarcation line just inside the … More