Glauci:nra is a disease characterised i:y etevation of the intraoccuiar pressure. It is well known that this rise in the intraocular pressure (IOF) is always due to tissue changes ',r'irrcir reduces the nonnal ouiflow of aquous humours (except in -rare cases of hypersecreton glaucoma). Irlespective of the mechanism causing the rise of IOP, the changes induced in the ocular tissues are usually cheractelistic. One of the i;iscues to be afiected clinically by the rise of IOP is the cornea.
'Ihe purpose of this study is to clescribe the ultrastructural changes in the sornea in cases of atrsolute qlaucoma due to different causes.