title: Secondary cataract material collected with a glass cannula. A SEM study.
abstract: Secondary cataract material from three patients, collected with a glass cannula approx. 18, 24 and 30 months respectively after operation, was prepared for SEM examination. For the soft samples this was done by filtration through a millipore filter followed by fixation and drying. The more solid material was suspended in a fixation solution, followed by centrifuging, suspension in 70% ethanol and drying on a specimen-holder. The short residence samples (18 months) showed mainly erythrocytes, some (inflammatory) cells and degenerated lens-fibre material. Most of the more solid material, which was collected more than 20 months after operation, showed fragments of (regenerated) capsule epithelium and pieces of solid lens-fibre material with fragments of capsule epithelium attached.
authors.affiliation: Department of Histology and Cellbiology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Jongebloed
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: van der Veen
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dijk
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Worst
mesh_terms: D002386:Cataract / Q000473:pathology*; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D013997:Time Factors