Subconjunctival cysts as a complication of strabismus surgery
B. J. Kushner
Ophthalmology Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Six patients were operated on for large subconjunctival cysts that
developed up to 35 years after strabismus surgery. In four of these
patients the cyst was found to arise between the anterior edge of the
muscle and the site to which the muscle had been sutured during previous
surgery. The muscle was attached to the posterior wall of the cyst and not
to the sclera. A pseudotendon was found running between the point on the
sclera to which the muscle had been sutured and the undersurface of the
muscle far posteriorly. In the other two patients a sudoriferous cyst was
found that the referring ophthalmologist had mistakenly thought to
represent an abscess when excision was attempted.
