The lens capsule

Electron Microscopic Study of Pseudo-exfoliation of the Lens Capsule. I. Lens Capsule and Zonular Fibers.

Considerable controversy has arisen as to the nature and origin of the blue-gray flecks seen in the anterior segment of the eye in so-called pseudo-exfoliation of the lens capsule. An electron microscopic study has been carried out in an attempt to clarify this problem and Part I of this work deals with the findings in the lens and lens capsule. The filamentous nature of the deposit is confirme...

Effect of lens extraction in pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule.

It is a matter of considerable clinical interest whether removal of the lens causes regression of pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule. Before the paper by Dvorak-Theobald (I954), pseudoexfoliation of the lens capsule was often confused with true exfoliation, and it was suggested that lens extraction caused the condition to disappear (Irvine, I940; Gradle and Sugar, I947). After this paper app...

Impacted microfilaria in the lens capsule.

Composition of ox lens capsule.

Pseudo-exfoliation of the lens capsule.

THE interest in pseudo-exfoliation of the lens capsule lies in its relationship to and its association with glaucoma, nearly always of the chronic open-angle type; in the mechanism by which it causes the glaucoma, if it be the cause and not a mere associated phenomenon; in its racial incidence; and in its apparently uneven distribution in Great Britain. This study was carried out in an area in ...