Unexpected Intracameral Foreign Body during Routine Cataract Surgery

Introduction

Cataract surgery counts among the most frequent outpatient surgeries and hence with its standardization it also has a very low complication rate. We report the case of a 63-year-old woman in whom during otherwise uneventful sutureless cataract surgery all of a sudden an unknown foreign body appeared in the anterior chamber during phacoemulsification.

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