Kitagawa Kiyotaka, Yanagisawa Shuichiro, Yamada Tetsuya, Watanabe Kazuhiko, Yunoki Tatsuya
Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan.
Ann Ophthalmol (Skokie). 2008 Fall-Winter;40(3-4):171-2.
A 79-year-old woman underwent phacoemulsification/ aspiration with a hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lens in the left eye. The intra-operative course was uneventful. Brownish discoloration of the lens optics was noted 16 months postoperatively. To our knowledge, the late discoloration of a hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lens has not previously been reported.