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New devices offer potential of perfectly sized, shaped and centered CCC
Extracapsular cataract extraction was pioneered by Jacques Daviel in 1747. Even in those pioneering years, an anterior capsulotomy was required. In these early cases, the anterior capsule was torn open with a sharp instrument, the first cystotome. Albrecht von Graefe, in 1850, just over 100 years later, refined creation of the anterior capsular opening to a capsulectomy, using forceps to lacerate and remove a portion of the anterior capsule. In 1917, Ignacio Barraquer led ophthalmic surgeons away from extracapsular cataract extraction to intracapsular cataract extraction, and ICCE dominated over ECCE (Read more...)