The surgical management of dislocated traumatic cataracts.

Seven adult patients (six men and one woman, ranging in age from 50 to 83 years) underwent intracapsular cataract surgery for dislocated traumatic cataracts. Six of the seven also had anterior vitrectomies. All seven patients had preoperative visual acuities of counting fingers or worse. There were no serious postoperative complications and five of the patients had postoperative visual acuities of 20/60 or better. Visual acuity improved less in the other two patients because of pre-existing but unrecognized macular disease.