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Report of First Case with Clinical and Histological Findings

A. FRANCESCHETTI; H. RICKLI

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1954;51(4):499-508.

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IT WAS in 1883 that Becker¹ gave the first anatomical description of posterior lenticonus in the rabbit, while the first clinical observation in man, by Meyer,² dates from 1888.

As far as the pathogenesis of posterior lenticonus is concerned, it was von Hess * who, on the basis of similar findings in the rabbit and the pig, put forward the theory that the condition was primarily the result of rupture of the posterior capsule of the lens, probably occurring at the embryonic stage, while he admitted that traction of the hyaloid artery might also play an important role.

Even though many authors have accepted this hypothesis, others have wondered whether the rupture of the capsule were not, in certain cases at least, an artifact produced by fixation. This point of view is supported by the fact that 30 cases of posterior lenticonus in animals were described between 1883 and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

From the Ophthalmological Clinic of the University of Geneva.

Footnotes
Professor Franceschetti was foreign guest of honor at this meeting of the Section.

Read before the Section on Ophthalmology at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, New York, June 3, 1953.

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