Reactive cellular membrane on a glass fragment after two years in the anterior chamber.
An optically clear membrane composed of a continuous proteinaceous film and sessile cells of macrophage origin was present on the surface of a glass fragment removed from the anterior chamber of the eye of a nine-year-old boy almost two years after a perforating corneal injury. This finding indirectly contributes to the understanding of membranes formed by the inner eye during adaptation to an intraocular lens implant.
D000867:Anterior Chamber; D002648:Child; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000473:pathology*; D005898:Glass; D006801:Humans; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D008297:Male; D008566:Membranes / Q000473:pathology; D013997:Time Factors; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating