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THE EFFICIENCY OF IRIDECTOMIES BEFORE 1884

S. HOLTH, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1932;8(4):489-494.

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When I sent my paper, "Histology of Fistulas Following Anterior Sclerectomy,"¹ to the ARCHIVES in March, 1931, the March number of Archives d'ophtalmologie² had not yet reached the University Eye Clinic in Oslo. I had not had an opportunity to read it until I received a reprint of the quoted article² from Professor Weekers two months later. The authors, who repeatedly said that I had performed iridencleisis only for chronic glaucoma, could not have read my article in 1927 on iridencleisis for acute glaucoma,³ although that article is the first one quoted in their references.

Weekers and Hubin evidently make the section from the outside with a knife (figs. 1 and 2), as suggested by Lundsgaard⁴ for iridencleisis. They do not employ the "limbal flap" (a loosening of the conjunctiva at the periphery of the cornea, suggested by Dupuy-Dutemps for the Elliot . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
OSLO, NORWAY

From the discussion on the operative treatment for glaucoma at the Eighth Northern Ophthalmological Congress, Helsingfors, Finland, June 25, 1931.

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