A Case of Liquefied Posterior Capsular Opacification

ABSTRACT

Among the complications of cataract surgery, the reported frequency of posterior capsular opacification was 20~50 percent. We experienced a case of new type of posterior capsular opacification in the seventy-one year old woman patient, who undertook the cataract operation with phacoemulsification six years ago and visited our hospital with the decreased vision. With biomicroscopic examination, posterior capsular opacification, creating a closed chamber between the lens and the posterior capsule in which a liquefied, milky white substance accumulates was detected. The patient was treated with Nd YAG laser capsulotomy. To our knowledge, there has been no reported case of liquefied posterior capsular opacification in Korea. Therefore we report this case with literature review.