This Article  • Full text  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal

Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:411.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 148 words of the full text and any section headings.

Dr Knapp said, in former times when, afraid of the danger, he had cauterized superficially, the treatment had been negative, ie, followed by no marked improvement. During the last six or eight years he had used galvano-cautery, with a disciform electrode. Without perforation of the cornea the effect was slight, and the operation had to be repeated. Of late he therefore had perforated the cornea; the results had been good, no eye lost; in one eye the heat had produced a cataract; the eye after extraction obtained very good sight. He had usually applied the electrode a little below the centre of the cornea, had made iridectomy in two cases, in one for optical purposes, in the other for glaucoma which had set in when the corneal fistula had closed.

Reference: Knapp H. The surgical treatment of keratoconus and high degrees of myopia. Arch Ophthalmol. 1898;27:452.