Scanning electron microscopy of intraocular lens and endothelial cell interaction.

Scanning electron microscopic evaluation of two intraocular lenses removed at keratoplasty for pseudophakie bullous keratopathy demonstrated apparently viable endothelial cells adherent to their surfaces. These presumably adhered to the lens implants at the time of their insertion and confirm this as a mechanism for endothelial damage and subsequent corneal edema from intraocular lens implantation.