OPINIONS are divided regarding corneal or corneo-scleral suturing after cataract extraction, and a variety of methods has been advanced. One of the disadvantages of suturing is the difficulty and danger of removing the sutures (Hughes, Guy, and Romaine, 1944; Hughes and Owens, 1947; Guyton, 1948; Roberts, 1952; Harrison, 1952; Arruga, 1956), and consideration has been given to the advantage of ...

AIMS To comprehensively study the gross anatomy of human corneal innervation. METHODS Twenty-one specimens, including 12 normal human corneas from seven deceased patients, two eye-bank corneo-scleral buttons, two eye-bank corneo-scleral rims and five post-surgical specimens from three patients with keratoconus were studied. Corneal whole mounts were stained for cholinesterase enzyme using the...

Rajiv R. P. Singh,1 Peter Prelovšek,2,3,4 and B. Sriram Shastry5,4 1Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616 2Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany 3J. Stefan Institute and Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia 4Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, California 931...

Tobias Ulbricht, Rafael A. Molina, Ronny Thomale, and Peter Schmitteckert Institut für Theorie der Kondensierten Materie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Instituto de Estructura de la Materia CSIC, Serrano 123, 28006 Madrid, Spain Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Institut für Nanotechnologie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 763...