Central Capsulary Iridectomy

Involuntary Iridectomy

Sir,?As Captain Duer suggests i" the Indian Medical Gazette, October 1901, it would interest us much to hear more from our experienced operators of the cause of this accident of involuntary iridectomy. I have often wondered why more has not been said about it. When it has happened to me I have always put it down to want of skill. Perhaps it has been so. I do not believe that it is always due to...

Involuntary Iridectomy

Sir,?I must plead guilty to having performed many iridectomies unintentionally, and at the same time point out the cause of this little accident in most of my cases. This was a "bellying" of the blade of the Grafe's knife. If instead of the knife being, except at the point, of equal thickness and width there be a " belly " or greater width in the forepart of the blade, leaving the part near the...

Cataract Extraction without Iridectomy.

IN cataract surgery iridectomy or iridotomy has been done as a general rule since 1864, when von Mooren first introduced it (Bellows, 1944). Different types of iridectomies have been advocated by various surgeons. Chandler in 1890 suggested a pin-hole peripheral iridectomy (Knapp, 1947), and Harrington (1949) also concluded that peripheral iridectomy was better than a complete iridectomy. Kirby...

On Iridectomy in Certain Complications of Iritis

Peripheral iridectomy in closed-angle glaucoma.

PERIPHERAL iridectomy has become an accepted method of treating closedangle glaucoma. During the last 4 years we have performed this operation on more than seventy eyes and the results have convinced us that this is one of the safest and most successful of all operations for glaucoma provided that the cases are properly selected. It is the ideal operation for early cases of closed-angle glaucom...