This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (6)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Report on the Operative Treatment of 72 Eyes with Glaucoma

GEORGE S. TYNER, M.D.; CHARLES O. ARNOLD, M.D.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1962;68(5):581-586.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

This paper presents the results of peripheral iridectomy with scleral cautery on 72 eyes of 60 patients with various types of glaucoma. Thirty-seven of the eyes in this series were previously reported¹; 42 had been reported in the original paper, but 5 have been lost to follow-up. All patients have been examined within 8 months of the writing of this paper. The follow-up period is from 2 months to 4 years. Results for 58 of the eyes have been followed for longer than a year.

The operation, as described by Scheie,² consists essentially of making a wide limbus-based flap, the application of thermal cautery to the area of sclera to be incised, a scratch incision over the root of the iris into the anterior chamber, reapplication of the cautery to cause retraction of the wound edges, and a peripheral iridectomy. When the iris does not prolapse spontaneously or . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Denver

From the Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 23, 1962.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?