This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (9)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

EVERETT L. GOAR, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1955;54(1):73-76.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

For the purpose of this discussion a monocular cataract will be defined as advanced opacification of the crystalline lens in one eye, while the other lens is clear or has opacities that have not yet affected visual acuity. The case of the infant born with monocular cataract is another problem and will not be discussed here.

Until recently a cataract in one eye was allowed to go to maturity and beyond as long as the vision remained useful in the other eye. An ancient dictum said one should wait until vision dropped to 20/70 in the better eye before operating on the other. The reasoning behind this was that as long as the patient could see well enough to get around and to do close work with the better eye, the eye operated on would be of little or no good. A patient could not wear a cataract lens before . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Houston, Texas

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor University College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 4, 1955.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?