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Aphakic Spectacles

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Eyeglasses prescribed after cataract surgery when no intraocular lens is inserted into the eye. Today, in uneventful cataract surgery, the crystalline lens of the eye is typically replaced by an artificial lens implant. If such a lens cannot be implanted, a thick (plus-powered) convex lens is used to correct strong hyperopia. Such glasses are cumbersome, greatly distort peripheral vision (ring scotoma), and increase lateral magnification which effects a loss of stereo vision in unilateral use.

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  1. Institute of Experimental Ophthalmology, Saarland University, Kirrberger Str. 100, Eye Clinic, Bldg. 22, D-66421, Homburg, Saar, Germany

    Achim Langenbucher

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  1. Dept of Ophthal & Optometry,AKH, Medical University of Wien Dept of Ophthal & Optometry,AKH, Wien, Austria

    Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main Department of Ophthalmology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Thomas Kohnen

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Langenbucher, A. (2015). Aphakic Spectacles. In: Schmidt-Erfurth, U., Kohnen, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35951-4_601-1

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