Soemmering ring is an annular swelling of the periphery of the lens capsule. In 1828, Detmar Wilhelm Sömmerring observed posterior capsule opacification and then described Soemmering's ringDetmar Wilhelm Soemmerring: Beobachtungen über die organischen Veränderungen im Auge nach Staaroperationen. Verlag von Wilhelm Ludwig Wesché, Frankfurt am Main 1828Julius Hirschberg: History of ophthalmology (1987)Weinand F et al: Phakogene Uveitis bei Luxation des Soemmering'schen Nachstarwulstes ... Klin Monatsbl Augenheilkd 2004, 221, 277-279. as deposits of retained equatorial lens epithelial cells which continue to proliferate and form new cortical fibers which eventually form a ring of cortical fibers between the posterior capsule and the edges of the anterior capsule remnant.
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