Preoperative spectral-domain optical coherence tomography in cataract surgery

We read with interest the article by Abdelmassih et al.1 regarding the role and cost-effectiveness of preoperative spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) in patients having cataract surgery. In their study, the macular SD-OCT was abnormal in 26.7% of eyes overall and in 17.5% of eyes when only anomalies not seen on fundus examination were taken into consideration.1 These results are somewhat different from those in previous...