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Chapter-22 Manual Phacofracture

BOOK TITLE: Small Incision Cataract Surgery (Manual Phaco)

Author
1. Vajpayee Rasik B
2. Sinha Rajesh
3. Bhartiya Prashant
ISBN
9788184489804
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11358_22
Edition
2/e
Publishing Year
2010
Pages
4
Author Affiliations
1. Dr RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, RP Center of Ophthalmology, AIIMS, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110 029, India, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Australia, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, RP Center, New Delhi, India, Centre for Eye Research Australia, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia, Cornea Services Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Centre for Eye Research, University of Melbourne, Australia, RP Center of Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Dr Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
2. Dr RP Center for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi, India, Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medial Sciences, New Delhi, India, AIIMS, New Delhi, India, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, RP Center, New Delhi, India, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Dr RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Dr RP Center for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi, India, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Dr RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institut
3. Dr RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Corneal Fellow, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; Bombay Hospital, Indore, India, Corneal Clinic, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Centre for Eye Research, Australia, Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
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Abstract

The nucleus is fractured by using a Kansas trisector and Kansas nucleus vectis. The Trisector is positioned above the nucleus and vectis placed under the nucleus. Now nucleus fragments are fractured by moving the tips of the two instruments towards each other and fractured fragments are viscoexpressed. In pre-chop technique the nucleus is chopped into smaller pieces using sharp chopper. In manual multi-phacofragmentation (MPF) in which nucleus is fragmented into 4 pieces.

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