Klin Monbl Augenheilkd 2017; 234(04): 436-438
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-119567
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Unexpected Intracameral Foreign Body during Routine Cataract Surgery

Unerwarteter Vorderkammer-Fremdkörper während einer Routine-Kataraktoperation
L. Eggenschwiler
1   Dept. of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Switzerland
,
S. Savic Prince
2   Dept. of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Switzerland
,
L. Bubendorf
2   Dept. of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Switzerland
,
C. Walder
3   Empa, Eidg. Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt, Duebendorf
,
D. Goldblum
1   Dept. of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Basel, University Basel, Switzerland
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Publication Date:
22 March 2017 (online)

Introduction

Cataract surgery counts among the most frequent outpatient surgeries and hence with its standardization it also has a very low complication rate. We report the case of a 63-year-old woman in whom during otherwise uneventful sutureless cataract surgery all of a sudden an unknown foreign body appeared in the anterior chamber during phacoemulsification.