Visual results and complications of 500 intraocular lens implantations.

These statistics reported for the visual results and complications of 500 intraocular lenses suggest that better visual results are obtained following extracapsular surgery. After all nonoperative causes for vision less than 6/12 were eliminated, 85.2% of the intracapsular cataract extractions had 6/12 or better vision. A similar group of planned extracapsular cataract extractions and phacoemulsifications yielded vision of 6/12 or better in 95% and 91.2% respectively.