EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor: William Charles Caccamise, Sr, MD, Retired Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

*Dr. Caccamise has very generously shared his images of patients taken while operating during the "eye season" in rural India as well as those from his private practice during the 1960's and 1970's. Many of his images are significant for their historical perspective and for techniques and conditions seen in settings in undeveloped areas.

Category: Pediatrics

Persistent pupillary membrane with anterior cataract

This is not a posterior synechia which is an adhesion of the posterior surface of the iris to the anterior surface of the lens (or the vitreous face in an aphakic eye). The structure going to the white anterior polar cataract arises from the iris frill. It then tents over the pars pupllaris of the iris and attaches to the anterior lens capsule.

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