Elschnig pearls after cataract surgery (Photo)

This photo shows an elschnig pearl that has formed behind a cataract inplant. These occur when residual lens epithelial cells migrate and cluster into round formations like you can see in this picture.

This is a common findings after cataract surgery and are almost always visually insignificant. To see what these grape-like clusters look like, you may want to watch our elschnig pearl video from which this photograph was captured.