cataract extraction in a sentence
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- In the 1980s, with the ever-increasing popularity of the Kelman phacoemulsification technique that emphasized a small incision and extra-capsular cataract extraction ( ECCE ), the keratome-and-scissors, large incision surgery technique combined with intracapsular cataract extraction ( ICCE ) became obsolete, although the use of the von Graefe knife still continued in India.
- Bronze oral suction instruments have been unearthed that seem to have been used for this method of cataract extraction during the 2nd century AD . Such a procedure was described by the 10th-century Iraqi ophthalmologist Ammar ibn Ali of Mosul, in his " Choice of Eye Diseases ", also written in the 10th century.