EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology
Category: Cataract
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Acute endophthalmitis during immediate post- cataract surgery |
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Aftercataract (Elschnig's pearls) |
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Aftercataract: following a planned intracapsular cataract extraction in 1977 |
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Anterior capsule phimosis |
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Anterior polar cataract |
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Anterior Polar Cataract |
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Anterior polar cataract |
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Anterior polar cataract |
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Anterior polar cataract - a congenital cataract |
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Anterior vitreous membrane following uncomplicated intracapsular cataract extraction with peripheral iridectomy |
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Artisan(claw) intraocular lens |
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Asteroid hyalosis: computer manipulated to make particles more easily seen |
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Atrophia bulbi |
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Atrophia bulbi |
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Bell microerisiphake with Morgagnian cataract |
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Bell microerisiphake: a summary of instruments used during the waning days of intracapsular cataract surgery |
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Brunescent cataract, mature |
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Bullous keratopathy following intracapsular cataract surgery - |
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Bullous keratopathy: a sequela of intracapsular cataract surgery |
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Cache of post-op cataract complications |
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Cataract - congenital posterior polar cataract |
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Cataract- a shrunken Morgagnian cataract has slipped into the anterior chamber |
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Cataract on tip of microerisiphake-in OR |
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Cataract with Fuchs' heterochromic cyclitis |
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Cataract with refractile bodies |
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Cataract with refractile bodies |
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Cataract: a discussion of the nuclear cataract |
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cataract: a mature cataract that is entering the hypermature stage |
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cataract: a von Graefe knife incision that went astrat. In spite of its improper placement and the use of no sutures, the wound healed perfectly. |
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Cataract: aftercataract (secondary cataract) following needling (discission) |
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Cataract: bilateral mature senile cataract - typical patient at thEye Clinic in rural India |
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cataract: cholesterol crystals |
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Cataract: cystoid cicatrix and ectropion uveae following intracapsular cataract surgery with a complete iridectomy |
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cataract: intumescent cataracta neurodermatica, i.e. a cataract associated with atopic dermatitis |
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cataract: iris prolapse as a postop complication of recent cataract surgery. |
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Cataract: Is my cataract ready for surgery? |
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cataract: mature corticonuclear cataract |
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cataract: most common site of an incipient cataract |
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cataract: nuclear sclerosis vs nuclear cataract |
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cataract: phthisis bulbi post cataract surgery |
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cataract: Post-0p phthisis bulbi |
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Cataract: post-needling Elschnig's pearls |
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cataracta calcarea |
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cataracta calcarea - a subluxated calcified cataract |
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cataracta complicata et calcarea/ calcified complicated cataract |
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Cataracta complicata with chronic uveitis |
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cataracta complicata/cataracta dermatogenica |
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cataracta stellata |
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cataracta stellata - computer manipulated |
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cataracta syndermatotica or cataracta neurodermatica: associated with atopic dermatitis |
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cataract-anterior polar |
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cholesterol crystals in lens - 2 photos |
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Classic intumescent cataract |
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Classic intumescent cataract in an adult in the USA |
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coloboma of iris - a special bridge variety-with a mature corticonuclear cataract |
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Coloboma: Temporal iris and lens coloboma associated with cataract |
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congenital cataract - post-op extracapsular cataract surgery |
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congenital cataract in the membranous cataract stage |
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Congenital cataract OS in a 23yr old female pt - similar lesion OD |
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Congenital Cataract--Sutural |
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congenital lamellar / zonular cataract |
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corectopia : eccentricity of the pupil |
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corneal staphyloma following sutureless cataract surgery complicated by huge iris prolapse |
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corneoscleral contact lens |
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coronary cataract / cataracta coronaria |
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dislocated cataractous lens |
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dystrophia myotonica with cataracta complicata |
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earliest detection of cortical cataractous changes |
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Ectopia Lentis: 55-year-old man with Marfan syndrome, mature cataract, and ectopia lentis. |
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ectopia lentis |
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expulsive choroidal hemmorrhage that occurred during cataract surgery in Gaya, India |
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Extracapsular cataract in a child: the use of the Fuchs' syringe |
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Hypermature cataract: |
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Hypermature Morgagnian Cataract with pathognomonic white dots beneath the anterior capsule |
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Hypermature Morgagnian cataract with white dots |
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hyphema: post cataract surgery |
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immature cuneiform senile cortical cataract OD |
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Improperly made von Graefe knife cataract incision |
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inaccurate von Graefe incision OS |
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incipient cortical cataract: the inferior nasal quadrant axiom |
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incipient cortical cataractous changes |
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incipient, immature cortical cataractous changes in the inferior-nasal quadrant of the lens |
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Intracapsular cataract extraction (ICCE) operation in 1977 (Resultant surgical wound repair). |
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intracapsular cataract extraction that failed-ending up as an extracapsular extraction with retention of significant lens material |
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Intracapsular cataract extraction with complete iridectomy and iris prolapse |
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Intracapsular cataract extraction with cystoid cictrix and a corneal contact lens |
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intracapsular cataract operation |
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Intraocular lens (IOL) implant history |
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intumescent cataracta complicat secondary to anterior uveitis OD |
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intumescent traumatic cataract |
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intumescent traumatic cataract with ectropion uveae from 11 to 7 o'clock |
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IOL surgery gone awry - 1970 |
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Iridodialysis and traumatic catract |
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iris prolapse following intracapsular cataract surgery without sutures |
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iris: prolapsed iris following intracapsular cataract surgery with 180 degree incision |
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Lamellar/Zonular cataract |
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Leiske IOL - a part of the intraocular lens history |
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lentiglobus: a rare congenital anomaly |
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Marfan's Syndrome |
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Mature Cataract |
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Mature Cataract |
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Mature Cataract |
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mature cataract |
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Mature cataract in an adult |
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mature corticonuclear cataract with a cataracta nigra component |
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mature corticonuclear cataract with patchy heterochromia iridis OD |
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membranous cataract - remnant of congenital cataract through self-absorption |
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membranous cataract / cataracta membranacea |
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Morgagnian cataract |
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Morgagnian cataract |
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Morgagnian cataract (shrunken with the nucleus enclosed in the lens capsule now lying in the anterior chamber) |
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Morgagnian cataract, displaced |
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Morgagnian hypermature cataract:: a rare shrinking stage |
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Morgagnian hypermature cataract: a second case extracted intracapsularly with the Bell microerisiphake |
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Needled aftercataract |
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nuclear cataract - incipient stage |
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nuclear sclerosis cataract |
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Ocular Syphilis Presenting with Posterior Subcapsular Cataract |
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oil droplet cataract |
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Pannus -superior limbus with Morgagnian cataract |
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perfect intracapsular cataract operation with two peripheral iridectomies - a part of cataract surgery's history |
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Perfect photograph of the classic hypermature Morgagnian cataract |
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perfectly couched eye |
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phacemulsification in its relatively early years - 1977 |
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phacolytic glaucoma due to leaking Morgagnian cataract |
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pigmented persistent pupillary membrane with congenital cataract OD |
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post cataract surgery panophthalmitis |
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post excision of huge prolapsed iris following intracapsualr cataract surgery with 180 degree incision superiorly |
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post-endophthalmitis membrane with anterior uveitis, seclusio pupillae, and iris atrophy - all following uncomplicated intracapsular cataract operation. |
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posterior capsular opacity (PCO) following cataract surgery |
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posterior polar cataract |
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posterior polar cataract: a congenital cataract |
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posterior subcapsular cataract |
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Posterior subcapsular cataract |
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posterior subcapsular cataract |
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Posterior subcapsular cataract--retroillumination |
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postop cataract complication: massive prolapse of the iris |
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post-op cataract complications |
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postop prolapse of iris |
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pre-Morgagnian cataract |
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prolapse of the iris following cataract surgery |
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prolapse of the iris following cataract surgery |
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pseudoexfoliation zonular dehiscence |
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ragged von Graefe incision, secondary cataract (aftercataract), and pingueculae |
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retrobulbar block before cataract surgery |
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rubeosis iridis, hyphema, iris atrophy, and cataracta complicata |
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spontaneous rupture of cataracta complicata in an eye with chronic uveitis, iris atrophy, and neovascularization |
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spontaneously subluxated cataract with a history of recurrent anterior uveitis OS |
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standard cataract instrument tray in 1964 |
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subluxated cataract |
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subluxated cataractous lens - spontaneous |
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subluxated lens |
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subluxated lens - result of couchingOD |
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subluxated, couched lens/cataract |
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Subluxation of lens (A poor couching result) |
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surgically aphakic eye with glaucoma and hyphema |
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Telltale scleral scar in a couched eye |
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the ancient art of couching |
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The differential diagnosis of the white cataract in older patients |
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the intumescent cataract |
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the ultimate in heterochromia OD |
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the ultimate post-op ocular complication of cataract surgery |
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The von Graefe incision in cataract surgery - an historical note |
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traumatic aftercataract following a perforating injury of cornea |
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Traumatic cataract, ruptured capsule |
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traumatic rosette cataract |
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traumatic rosette cataract - a perfect example |
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true-exfoliation of the anterior capsule of the lens - evident after intracapsular cataract surgery |
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true-exfoliationof the anterior lens capsule |
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unsuccessful couching - OD |
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white cataract from trauma |
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"Y-suture" Cataract |
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zonular cataract/ lamellar cataract |
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zonular/ lamellar cataract in India: computer enhanced |
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zonular/ lamellar congenital cataract |
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zonular/ lamellar congenital cataract with associated coronary cataract |
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Zonules of Zinn |
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