Extracapsular surgery is a type of cataract surgery in which an incision is made in the eye and the entire opacified lens is extracted out. An artificial replacement lens is inserted into the exisiting lens bag and the incision is closed with stitches. This was formerly the most common method of treating cataracts, until the phacoemulsificaiton procedure was developed.
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