Editorial Comment for Graefe's Articles: In the current issue of Graefe’s, the reader finds numerous excellent articles dealing with ocular traumatology. Shah et al. present a large series of cases with traumatic cataract.
The strength of this paper is due to the size of the cohort, the use of the standardized language of eye-injury terms (Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology system, BETT), the prospective nature of data collection, and the inclusion of follow-up data, albeit with a relatively short duration. Traumatic cataract is a somewhat neglected injury type. This is probably due to the fact that it is rarely the lens that determines the outcome of the case — notable exceptions include children of amblyopic age if the extraction and proper orthoptic therapy are delayed, and surgical errors such as creating a retinal break by inappropriately engaging vitreous during lens removal [1].…
