| abstract |
A balloon for an intraocular lens, which is a unitary elastic hollow body made of an elastomer and having a convex lenticular shape without projections along its circumference, which gives, when inserted in a lens capsule, a configuration corresponding substantially to the shape of the lens capsule, said hollow body having a wall thickness of from 0.001 to 0.1 mm at its optical portion and a diameter of from 6 to 13 mm, and capable of being inflated in the lens capsule to form an intraocular lens when a light transmitting injection material is injected into the hollow body. |