As is well known to ophthalmologists, characteristic structures, called .deposits of Busaccaa, are seen in eyes affected with so-called senile exfoliation of the anterior lens capsule. In Norway the latter condition is demonstrable in 80-90 O/O of patients suffering from glaucoma simplex. These deposits, the anatomical structure of which originally was described by Busacca (1928) and lately subjected to a closer study by one of us (Sunde, 1956), occurs mainly on the anterior surface of the lens, on the posterior surface of the iris and ciliary body, along the fibres of the zonule of Zinn, and on the hyaloid membrane. The name commonly applied to the condition, senile exfoliation of the anterior lens capsule, was coined in the belief that the structures seen were no true deposits but a desquamation of a pathologically altered lens capsule. Although this belief was due to a misinterpretation of histological preparations (Sunde, 1956, Landolt, 1957, the term has been retained.The purpose of the present study is to expand our knowledge about the morphology of these deposits through the application of electron microscopy.
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