An innovation in developing world cataract surgery: sutureless extracapsular cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation

The benefits of sutureless cataract surgery have not been available to the majority of developing world patients. This report describes a surgical technique developed to gain the benefits of self-sealing sutureless techniques, without the need for costly, complex instrumentation, expensive consumables, or difficult nucleus fragmentation manoeuvres in the anterior chamber.