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Volume 33, Issue 12, Pages 2023-2027 (December 2007)


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Intraocular lens roll-up technique: Foldable IOL implantation using forceps through incisions smaller than 3.2 mm

Shin Fukami, MDCorresponding Author Informationemail address, Narumichi Yamamoto, MD, Kimio Murakami, MD

Accepted 10 July 2007.

We describe the intraocular lens (IOL) roll-up technique, which uses lens forceps to insert 3 types of foldable polyacrylic IOLs with optic diameters of 6.0 mm through small sclerocorneal incisions comparable to those used by injector systems.

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center, Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Shin Fukami, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center, Komagome Hospital, 3-18-22 Honkomagome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8677, Japan.

 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

PII: S0886-3350(07)01610-0

doi:10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.07.044


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