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GUIST OPERATION AND REPORT OF CASES

HUGH S. McKEOWN, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1933;9(1):64-77.

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In considering the advice to give a patient with detachment of the retina, most ophthalmologists immediately become conscious of the great percentage of failures of the surgical treatments which have been used to date and discourage rather than encourage the patient in following any treatment. This point alone is sufficient stimulus to encourage work with these patients in an effort to increase the percentages of cures and improvements in those treated surgically.

In March, 1930, Dr. Mark J. Schoenberg read a paper before the Ophthalmologic Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, giving in detail the method used by Professor Gonin in treating detachments of the retina. It was pointed out that the success of the Gonin operation depended on (1) the selection of suitable cases, (2) the accuracy of the technic and (3) the cooperation of the patient.

In 1931, Dr. J. Ringland Anderson published a monograph which . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read at Ophthalmologic Section, New York Academy of Medicine, Feb. 15, 1932.

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