Use of the phaco tip technique for lens cleavage and removal during cataract surgery
Yoichiro Masuda1, Kotaro Oki2, Hisaharu Iwaki3
1Department of Ophthalmology, Jikei University Katsushika Medical Center.
Clinical Ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)
|October 28, 2016
Abstract:
Use of the phaco tip technique for lens cleavage and removal does not require manual hydrodissection using a syringe and cannula, or cortical removal using an irrigation/aspiration tip. The phaco tip is the only surgical instrument required for this technique. Its advantages include maintaining a stable intraocular pressure during cortical cleaving hydrodissection and lens removal, which includes the cortex.


