Experimental Retinal Detachment
- 1 September 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 76 (3) , 432-436
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1966.03850010434025
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to produce experimental retinal detachments caused by retinal breaks resulting from alterations of the vitreous gel. Thus, an effort was made to simulate the pathogenesis of human rhegmatogenous retinal detachments in which vitreoretinal traction is an essential factor.1-3 Clinical observations suggest that the presence of blood in the vitreous of human eyes may cause profound changes in the vitreous gel4 resulting in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Retinal detachments have been produced in animals by a variety of methods since the initial attempt by Chodin in 1875.5 These attempts may be divided into five general categories: With most of these methods, the retinal detachments spontaneously reattached. Techniques producing long-standing retinal detachments wereThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: