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A Soemmering's ring attached to a patient's I.O.L. was removed and processed for SEM-examination. The enveloping structure of the Soemmering's ring was clearly of capsular origin, adherent along a single line and forming an envelope around the inner material.
The envelope had a membranous character. The contents of the ring varied from the outside to the centre. Close to the capsule envelope a more or less amorphous material was found. Most of the contents of the ring was made up of lens-fibre material. Sometimes clear lens fibres were visible with densely packed lens-fibre proteins, sometimes with clusters of recrystallized proteins, rod-shaped or spherical, surrounded by what appeared to be amorphous material.
The recrystallized and the amorphous lens-fibre material are similar to material found in cataractous lenses.
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Jongebloed, W.L., Dijk, F., Kruis, J. et al. Soemmering's ring, an aspect of secondary cataract: A morphological description by SEM. Doc Ophthalmol 70, 165–174 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154449
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