RETINAL DETACHMENT CURED BY AN EYEBALL-SHORTENING OPERATION
- 1 December 1939
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)
- Vol. 22 (6) , 974-979
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1939.00860120046003
Abstract
In 1933 Lindner published the description of an operation which he called an eyeball-shortening operation. This procedure is a modification of a similar operation previously described by L. Müller and was suggested by Lindner for use in cases of retinal detachment in which operation by other methods had been unsuccessful. He also suggested and used it for the first operation in certain unfavorable cases. As can be imagined, this operation is most applicable when the detached retina is found to be held away from its normal bed by fine vitreous strands or by agglutination of retinal folds. The technic of the operation is fully described in Lindner's article1and is easily understandable from the illustrations, even if the reader is not proficient in German. Essentially, the operation consists of excising a long, narrow crescentshaped piece of sclera lying concentric with the limbus and suturing the cut edges of theKeywords
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