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RICHARD R. SCHULZE, MD; JAMES R. DUKE, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1965;73(1):74-79.

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Introduction

Cataract extraction is the most commonly performed intraocular surgical procedure in ophthalmology. While in the vast majority of instances the postoperative result is good, some failures do occur. Certain of these failures come to enucleation. In some of these cases it may be possible to evaluate the cause of failure from the clinical evidence alone, but in others the causal factors are disclosed only by histopathologic study of the enucleated eye.

There are relatively few studies reported in the literature of the causes of enucleation after cataract extraction. Payne and his group¹ in 1955 reported on 333 such eyes and recently Blodi² has studied 317 enucleated specimens. Payne stated that eyes with congenital or traumatic types of cataract were not included in his study. Blodi confined his study to eyes which had had senile cataracts, although he did include a few cases in which the operation had . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Baltimore

From the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 6, 1964.

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