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Kenneth J. Hoffer, MD
Santa Monica, Calif

Arch Ophthalmol. 1991;109(3):316.

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To the Editor.

—I read with interest the letter in the June 1990 issue of the ARCHIVES by Olson and Brodstein.¹ They describe a 20-year-old woman who underwent extracapsular cataract extraction with placement of a polypropylene looped posterior chamber intraocular lens (PC IOL). After a period, the polypropylene loops were forced by capsular fibrosis to encroach on the edge of the IOL, and one appeared over the IOL and the other one under it. I might simply add that this would not occur if a one-piece polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) PC IOL had been used. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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