Methods: In a prospective study, 21 eyes of 21 patients (mean age 70.6 ± 8.7 years, range: 50 - 88 years) with cataract and 1 diopter or more of topographic corneal astigmatism underwent phaco surgery with limbal relaxing incisions consisting of 2 arcuate incisions straddling the steepest corneal meridian associated with on-axis incision.