Spontaneous dislocation of a morgagnian nucleus.

Spontaneously dislocated small brown nucleus in the anterior chamber of a 75-year-old woman. Capsular bag remnants with calcific spots are visible in the pupillary area (Fig. 1, arrow). Morgagnian cataract, rarely seen in the present time, is a type of corticonuclear cataract with accelerated lens fiber dissolution and liquefaction of cortical matter and a small hard nucleus.[1] It usually presents as a small brown nucleus suspended in a white milky cortical fluid in the bag.[1234] This untreated Morgagnian cataract has progressed to total absorption of the liquefied cortex with capsular bag rupture and anterior dislocation of the nucleus.

Figure 1

Anterior segment photograph showing a small brown cataractous nucleus dislocated in the anterior chamber with crumpled capsular bag in the pupillary area with presence of calcific spots over capsular bag remnants (arrow)

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