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ALLEN GREENWOOD, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1933;10(4):472-482.

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In taking up this subject I shall mention only those operations which have for their object the obtaining of a good filtering cicatrix, and in doing so I shall confine myself to five: trephining, the Lagrange operation, iridotasis, iridencleisis and the special combination of the Lagrange operation and iridencleisis which I now use most frequently. During the past few years I have several times described the latter operation and spoken of the good results obtained, but I have always stated that for certain types of glaucoma I was still employing the Elliot trephine. For several patients I have used trephining for one eye and iridencleisis-sclerectomy for the other, so as to compare the results both as to the effect of the operation on the glaucomatous eye and as to the effect on the patient. Every operation performed for chronic glaucoma has some drawbacks, and it will probably be many . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read before the New England Ophthalmological Society, Boston, March 21, 1933.

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