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Preliminary Report

WILLIAM G. EVERETT, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1955;53(6):865-869.

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Since 1933, when Lindner¹ introduced the sclerectomy procedure devised by Müller² to retinal detachment surgery, there have been numerous modifications of scleral resection.

At the present time the many types of scleral shortening procedures can be classified in two groups: the penetrating, or full-thickness, scleral resection, and the lamellar scleral resection of a variable thickness of the outer part of the sclera and infolding of the remaining lamella, as described by Dellaporta.³ In the latter group one might include the implantation of polyethylene tubing in a previously prepared lamellar scleral resection bed, as discussed by Schepens.*

Consideration of the different methods of scleral shortening disclosed a different approach which was thought to hold promise. This new shortening procedure entails folding the sclera outward, in contrast to the present operations of resecting a penetrating strip of sclera or the infolding of a lamella of sclera.

Experimental evaluation of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Ophthalmology of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Institute of Ophthalmology of the Presbyterian Hospital.

Footnotes
This study was supported in full by the Retinal Detachment Research Fund of the Institute of Ophthalmology of the Presbyterian Hospital.

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