A 58-year-old man's posterior chamber intraocular lens dislocated after a transscleral fixation suture was removed during a routine eye examination. The lens had to be repositioned. A scleral flap over the fixation sutures and a better understanding by general ophthalmologists of transscleral fixation suturing would have prevented this complication.
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