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Creating cataracts of varying hardness to practice extracapsular cataract extraction and phacoemulsification(2)
S K Pandey1, L Werner, M Escobar-Gomez
1Center for Research on Ocular Therapeutics and Biodevices, Storm Eye Institute, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 29425-5536, USA.
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
|March 14, 2000
Abstract:
We describe a method to harden the nucleus of crystalline lenses in postmortem human globes by intralenticular injection of a mixture of paraformaldehyde and glutaraldehyde (Karnovsky's solution). Evaluation of the nuclear manipulations, using the Miyake-Apple posterior video/photographic technique, shows that the method provides suitable specimens for practicing extracapsular cataract extraction and phacoemulsification.