Ocular trauma can cause cataracts. The methods used to evaluate the visual outcome in eyes managed for traumatic cataracts and senile cataracts are similar, but the damage to other ocular tissues due to trauma may compromise the visual gain in eyes treated surgically for traumatic cataracts. Hence, the success rates may differ between eyes with these two types of cataract. There is no standard morphological classification.
Attempts at grading have been made, but these are arbitrary. The morphology of traumatic cataract depends mainly upon the type of injury and the time interval between the injury and intervention. With experience of more that 1200+ traumatic cataracts we have proposed this classification and published in British Journal of Ophthalmology Based on lenticular opacity, cataracts are classified as: total (Figure 1); white soft with soft material floating in anterior chamber…
