We discuss existence, uniqueness, regularity and boundary behaviour of solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the prescribed anisotropic mean curvature equation
where
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35" title="Click to view the MathML source">RN. This equation appears in the modeling theory of capillarity phenomena for compressible fluids and in the description of the geometry of the human cornea.