Cryoextraction of the lens of the eye

In ophthalmology , cryoextraction is a treatment method for cataracts in which a special medical instrument, the cryoprobe , freezes the liquid lens of the eye and thus allows it to be removed from the eye intact as a whole. The first description of the extraction of the human eye lens by freezing was published in 1961 by Tadeusz Krwawicz.

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• Roche Lexicon Medicine, 5th edition, Urban & Fischer 2003 ( keyword cryosurgery )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ T. Krwawicz: INTRACAPSULAR EXTRACTION OF INTUMESCENT CATARACT BY APPLICATION OF LOW TEMPERATURE. In: The British journal of ophthalmology. Volume 45, Number 4, April 1961, pp. 279-283, PMID 18170674 , PMC 510073 (free full text).

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