Retinal detachment surgery. Encircling silastic 3-mm. band without evacuation of subretinal fluid.

Retinal detachment surgery. Encircling silastic 3-mm. band without evacuation of subretinal fluid.

In retinal detachment surgery, Chawla (I97I) had excellent results using a 7-mm. encircling silastic band, cauterization of the edges of the tear by cryocautery, and evacuation of the subretinal fluid (Schepens, Okamura, and Brockhurst, I957). He felt that the technique was simpler than scleral dissection and safer than the supramid encircling suture. The present study has the following aims: (...

Encircling silastic 3-mm. band without evacuation of subretinal fluid

In retinal detachment surgery, Chawla (I97I) had excellent results using a 7-mm. encircling silastic band, cauterization of the edges of the tear by cryocautery, and evacuation of the subretinal fluid (Schepens, Okamura, and Brockhurst, I957). He felt that the technique was simpler than scleral dissection and safer than the supramid encircling suture. The present study has the following aims: (...

Retinal detachment treated with encircling silastic sponge. Further experience.

This technique, which has already been described in detail (Chawla, 1970), was used on two aphakic eyes which had already undergone unsuccessful surgery for retinal detachment and had shown early signs of preretinal retraction. Briefly, a 7 mm. silastic sponge is halved lengthwise to produce a broad shallow implant. Monitored cryopexy is applied to the retinal tears and any suspect areas. Subre...

Silastic rod encirclement in retinal detachment surgery.

Shifting subretinal fluid in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.

In a consecutive series of 470 cases of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment 25 (5%) were found to have shifting subretinal fluid (SRF) at the preoperative examination. The study showed that the association between SRF and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment is unusual but not rare. Shifting SRF was most often associated with aphakic and longstanding retinal detachment, and found in cases in which t...