Operations for Squint

Operations on One Hundred Cases of Convergent Concomitant Squint.

THE following series of 100 consecutive cases operated on for convergent concomitant squint is recorded to; show the degree of success which can be obtained by operation combined with orthoptic treatment. The patients were children from 6 to 14 years old, referred from the Salford Education. Committee Clinic and operated on at the Salford Municipal Hospital. It is estimated that in the orthopti...

Anti-inflammatory effect of oxyphenbutazone after cataract and squint operations.

ONE of the constant aims of the ophthalmic surgeon is to reduce post-operative inflammation to the minimum. The introduction of steroids has intensified interest in this problem. There is experimental evidence that steroids have a retarding effect on wound healing (Ashton and Cook, 1951; Newell and Dixon, 1951; Leopold, Purnell, Cannon, Steinmetz, and McDonald, 1951), but clinically this has no...

Early Operation for Squint.

To the Editorial Committee of the BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY SIRS,-It is the common experience of those surgeons who operate early on children with constant convergent squint of onset before the age of 2 years that, in those cases which they are able to follow up, if all the manifest obstacles to development of binocular vision are removed, a small proportion will attain full binocularity...

Squint

Late reoperations for squint.

Ten patients in the age range 2 to 22 years are described who had operations initially for squint in childhood. Nine had had concomitant convergent strabismus and one divergent. All presented again in adult life with a cosmetic complaint, but two also had diplopia. Reoperations were done, age range 14 to 43. These ten were all the "late reoperations" for squint which were done during the four y...