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PEI-FEI LEE, M.D.; ROBERT R. TROTTER, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1957;58(3):407-416.

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Tonographic studies of eyes with aphakic glaucoma have shown impairment of aqueous outflow. There has been, however, little knowledge as to what outflow facility prevailed in such eyes before the lens was extracted and as to the effect of cataract extraction on outflow facility in eyes not developing clinically recognized aphakic glaucoma. The purpose of this paper is to present a comparison of tonographic and gonioscopic studies made prior to and at intervals following cataract extraction in a series of 142 eyes (in 124 patients, 18 of whom had both lenses removed).

Method

The diagnosis of cataract was made in the Eye Clinic at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. No topical medication had ben instilled during the 48 hours before preoperative tonography. All tonographic and gonioscopic studies were done by one of us (P. F. L.). Tonography, practiced according to the method of Grant, was done at (approximately) 3, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Boston

From the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Footnotes
A portion of this paper was presented before the New England Ophthalmological Society, Boston, March 20, 1957.

This investigation was supported by Research Grant B-218 from the Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness of the National Institutes of Health, United States Public Health Service.

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