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Continuous sheet of lens epithelium on an intraocular lens: pathological confirmation of specular microscopy
1Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
|November 1, 1993
Abstract:
A monolayer of proliferating lens epithelium on the anterior surface of an intraocular lens was found cytologically and confirmed histologically in a postmortem examination of one eye of a 57-year-old man. The man had had extracapsular cataract surgery five years earlier. This pathological finding confirms observations with specular microscopy.
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