Cocooning of an iris-fixated intraocular lens in a 3-year-old child after perforating injury: clinicopathologic correlation

J Cataract Refract Surg. 2005 Sep;31(9):1826-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2005.06.009.

Abstract

We present a 3-year-old patient who developed extensive noninflammatory fibrous membrane formation in the anterior chamber involving the present iris-fixated intraocular lens (IOL), with subsequent need for explantation. The child had had repair of a corneal injury, crystalline lens extraction and Artisan iris-claw IOL (Ophthec) implantation after a penetrating injury 2 months before. Histopathologic analyses were consistent with a retrocorneal membrane that originated from the corneal stroma and formed a "cocoon" membrane on the iris-claw IOL.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anterior Chamber / pathology*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Corneal Injuries
  • Device Removal
  • Eye Injuries, Penetrating / surgery*
  • Fibrosis
  • Humans
  • Iris / surgery*
  • Lens Implantation, Intraocular / methods*
  • Lens, Crystalline / injuries
  • Lenses, Intraocular*
  • Male
  • Membranes / pathology
  • Postoperative Complications*