POSTOPERATIVE DETACHMENT OF THE CHOROID

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I have chosen to present this subject because, apart from the articles by Marshall and Hudson in the English ophthalmic literature, there are none but isolated case reports to be found in the American; and because I have paid particular attention to its occurrence, especially in postoperative cataract and glaucoma cases, since my attention was first called to the occurrence of postoperative detachment of the choroid in the clinic of Professor Fuchs. There are, broadly speaking, four classes of detachment: (1) tears of the ciliary body with the aqueous percolating into the suprachoroidal space; (2) traction on the choroid and retina by organizing masses in the vitreous; (3) hemorrhage in and beneath the choroid from ruptured vessels; (4) inflammatory detachment. Restitutio ad integrumis possibly only in the first group, and this group, whether due to tears of the ciliary body, as Fuchs believed, or to the causes which are

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