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Arch Ophthalmol. 1999;117:105.

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The retinal folds at the ora serrata, described by Lange in the eyes of children, are essentially an artificial product. The cornea shows great variations in thickness in individual cases. The anterior chamber is much deeper than has hitherto been described. The form of the lens, as examination of fresh eyes shows, is essentially different from all previous descriptions, its thickness measuring in two instances as much as 3.76 mm, and the posterior surface being much more curved than the anterior.

The ora serrata is distinctly developed, opposition to former assertions made by Schoen, and there are to be distinguished an ora serrata of the pigment epithelium, and another of the retina itself, which lies farther forward.

The physiological excavation is present in exactly the same condition as later in life, and the fovea centralis is extremely flat and level, the bodies of the cones in the bottom of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]