title: Scanning electron microscopic study of an anterior chamber intraocular lens: latent endophthalmitis.
abstract: Two years after intracapsular cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation, an anterior chamber lens was removed. The lens was studied by scanning electron microscope which demonstrated the presence of colonies of cocci, a thin acellular membrane covering part of the lens and some modifications of the lens surface.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de microscopie électronique de l'hôpital de Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Schémann
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009877:Endophthalmitis / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning