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ANGELOS N. DELLAPORTA, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1954;51(4):525-534.

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SHORTENING of the eyeball by scleral resection has proved to be successful in many cases of retinal detachment in which diathermy either has failed or offers a poor prognosis. Such cases include detachments in aphakic eyes without visible tears, total detachments, cases with exceptionally large tears, and detachments with fixed star folds or vitreous strands. Müller* was the first to perform the scleral resection operation for retinal detachment in 1903, but Lindner deserves the credit of reviving and advocating the idea of Müller in 1933. He elaborated a new, precise technique and defined the cases in which success could be expected. Since then many authors have reported results achieved by this operation, among them Pischel and Miller,⁷ Pischel,⁸ Bogart,⁹ Vail¹⁰ Borley,¹¹ and Hughes.¹²

Because certain hazards and complications are encountered in scleral resection, Lindner suggested in 1933³ a method of scleral folding to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BUFFALO

From the Eye-Bank and Research Laboratory, University of Buffalo Medical School.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Ophthalmology at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, New York, June 2, 1953.

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