Spherophakia

**Spherophakia** is an eye refractive error in which the eyeball does not contain the necessary amount of lens tissue to focus light on the retina. As a result, when light rays enter the eye, they may be reflected not from the retina, but from the wrong areas of the lens.

With spherophakia, people may have problems with vision, especially if vision was so poor from an early age. With this anomaly, correction with glasses or lenses may not be enough; in some cases, more complex types of optical correction may be required. In addition, spherophakia can cause various symptoms, such as blurred vision, distorted perception of objects, difficulty reading, etc.

The most common form of spherophakia, phakiopicon, occurs in approximately one in 500 people. As a rule, this form of spherophyakia is treated with laser vision correction. Other forms of spherophachia occur