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Michael Coleman1, Uri Soiberman1, Walter J Stark1
1Cornea Division, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Digital Journal of Ophthalmology : DJO
|September 20, 2017
Abstract:
We report the case of a 70-year-old man who underwent surgery to fixate a subluxated intraocular lens. A 10-0 polypropylene suture that had been placed 13 years prior was retrieved intraoperatively and subsequently imaged using electron microscopy. The suture showed no clinically significant signs of biodegradation.
