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II. The Experimental Production in Animals

ROGER LANGSTON, MD; HARVEY A. LINCOFF, MD; JOHN M. McLEAN, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 1965;74(5):665-668.

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The experiments described in this paper were designed to reproduce in animals the scleral abscess, which occasionally follows scleral buckling procedures for treatment of retinal detachment, and to determine the factors responsible for the production of abscess.

Materials

The animals used were adult, pigmented rabbits. The infecting agent was an undiluted 18 hour broth culture of Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase-positive, Giorgio strain. Diathermy with the Walker unit and cryopexy with the Linde ophthalmic cryosurgical unit, were used to produce chorioretinal lesions. Two types of silicone implants were included in the scleral buckles: a 5.0 mm sponge cylinder and a 5.0 mm grooved rectangular implant of solid silicone. The suture material was 5-0 Dacron.

Method

In addition to the presence of an infecting agent, the critical factors in the production of scleral abscess associated with a buckling procedure were assumed to be the thermal stimulus used to produce the chorioretinal adhesions and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Surgery (Ophthalmology) of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.

Footnotes
Submitted April 19, 1965.

Read before the Section on Ophthalmology at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association in New York, June 20-24, 1965.

Reprint requests to 440 E 57th St, New York, NY 10022 (Dr. Lincoff).

Part I, "A Complication of Retinal Detachment Buckling Procedures," may be found on p 641, this issue.

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