Ocular axial length changes in a pediatric patient with aphakia and pseudophakia.

Excessive eye elongation can be induced in experimental animals by visual deprivation. A tendency toward myopic refraction or shift in pediatric aphakia has been recorded in some children. In this report, we present the case of an 18-year-old patient who had developmental cataracts treated at seven years of age with bilateral cataract extraction and implantation of an intraocular lens in one eye only. Axial length of the eye with a contact lens increased compared with the eye with the intraocular lens.