Clear lens extraction for high axial myopia

ABSTRACT

This work was conducted following Waring's recommendations that "only cautious and thorough investigation in small populations of patients with alert and close observation would help clarify the true role of clear lens extraction in high axial myopia". Nevertheless, lenses removed from the highly myopic eyes of the patients were not totally clear but rather early cataracts according to Cook's opinion that cataracts may be removed at an earlier stage in myopes, so providing greatly improved postoperative vision with minor correction which proved to be an exciting optical outcome to the life-long myope