Fig. 88. Electric burn. A. Retroillumination shows a nonrandom orientation of fine opacities in the anterior midperiphery toward a central cataract. B. The anterior cataract consists of multiple layers of cells. The cataract is thickened at the edges by infolding of fibers. An autoradiograph indicates that all cells in the area have incorporated tritiated leucine into protein. The epithelial cells (e) and extracellular material (f) are covered by a lens capsule (c) (Hanna C, Fraunfelder FT: Electric cataracts. II. Ultrastructural lens changes. Arch Ophthalmol 87:184–191, 1972.)