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Table 1 Demographics and corneal opacity severity of the patients

From: Cataract surgery in patients with corneal opacities

Case No.

Gender

Laterality

Etiology of corneal opacity

Location of corneal opacity

Percentage of opacity area involving central ellipse (%)

Average density of corneal opacity

Corneal opacity severity*

Associated ocular pathology

Cataract grading

1

F

OS

Traumatic scar

Superotemporal scar involving central cornea

NA

NA

NA

 

NS3+ CO2+

2

M

OD

Bullous keratopathy

Diffusive opacity sparing temporal side

68.9

70.9

4882

PPA

NS2+

 

M

OS

Bullous keratopathty

Inferior focal scar involving central cornea

79.6

67.7

5389

PPA

NS2+ PSCO1+

3

M

OD

Herpetic keratitis

Central scar

41.4

87.1

3602

CR degeneration

NS3+

 

M

OS

Herpetic keratitis

Paracentral scar

53.1

73.1

3877

CR degeneration

NS3+

4

M

OS

Herpetic keratitis

Central scar

62.7

101.2

6340

 

NS2+

5

M

OD

Herpetic keratitis

Central scar

31.1

43.9

1365

 

NS4+ PSCO3+

6

M

OD

OCP

Diffusive faint scar

NA

NA

NA

 

NS2+ CO2+ PSCO1+

 

M

OS

OCP

Diffusive faint scar

NA

NA

NA

 

NS2+ CO2+ PSCO1+

7

M

OS

Traumatic scar

Diffusive dense scar

66.5

93.9

6246

CR degeneration

NS1+ CO1+ PSCO1+

8

F

OD

Idiopathic

Central focal scar

59.1

94.7

5592

 

NS2+

9

F

OS

Herpetic keratitis

Paracentral focal scar

40.0

119

4757

Macular degeneration

NS4+

10

M

OS

Traumatic scar

Central focal scar

NA

NA

NA

 

Traumatic cataract

11

F

OS

Idiopathic

Paracentral focal scar

NA

NA

NA

 

NS2+ CO2+

12

M

OS

Idiopathic

Paracentral dense scar

80

97.2

7780

Ambylopia

NS1+

13

F

OD

Herpetic keratitis

Central focal scar

93.8

89

8344

 

NS2+ CO1+

14

F

OD

SJS

Central scar

14.5

101.3

1470

 

NS4+

15

F

OS

Idiopathic

Paracentral scar

NA

NA

NA

Ambylopia

Total opacity

16

F

OD

Idiopathic

Diffusive scar

NA

NA

NA

CR degeneration

NS2+ CO2+

 

F

OS

Herpetic keratitis

Diffusive scar

NA

NA

NA

CR degeneration

NS2+ CO2+

17

F

OS

Herpetic keratitis

Central scar

76.1

86

6548

 

NS3+ CO2+

18

F

OD

Neurotrophic keratitis

Diffusive faint scar

30.2

40

1207

Pale disc

NS4+ CO3+

19

M

OD

Fungal ulcer

Central focal scar

NA

NA

NA

 

NS2+ CO2+

  1. M male, F female, OD right eye, OS left eye, OCP ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, SJS Stevens Johnson syndrome, PPA peripapillary atrophy, CR degeneration chorioretinal degeneration, NS nuclear sclerosis, CO cortical opacity, PSCO posterior subcapsular opacity, NA not accessible
  2. *area percentage of central ellipse x average density