Retinal relieving incisions

Radial Retinal Incisions for Complex Pediatric Traumatic Macular Holes.

Radial Retinal Incisions for Complex Pediatric Traumatic Macular Holes The first two reports of macular holes—by Knapp in 1869 and Noyes in 1871—were both traumatic in etiology. Since these early reports, however, our understanding of traumatic macular holes (TMH) has lagged somewhat behind our understanding of the more common variant, idiopathic macular holes, particularly regarding appropriat...

Abdominal Incisions

The abdominal parietes depend to a large extent for their arrangement upon the survival and evolution of those structures which are of use in the economy. We should therefore expect, as we find, that the normal anatomical arrangement of the abdominal wall, as the outcome of evolution, is the standard of perfection, the ideal of the wise surgeon. In our reverie we may look back to the time when ...

Incisions great and small.

Releasing and Relieving Encounters

Lorant, T. 2002. Studies of Rejection in Experimental Xenotransplantation. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1211. 60 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-554-5476-3. One main hurdle to xenotransplantation, i.e. transplantation between different species, is the immunological barrier that the organ meets in the recipient. The aim of thi...

Transconjunctival single-plane sclerocorneal incisions versus clear corneal incisions in cataract surgery.

PURPOSE To compare a transconjunctival single-plane sclerocorneal incision with 2 tiny conjunctival cuts at both ends and a clear corneal incision (CCI) in cataract surgery. SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. METHODS Patients having routine cataract surgery were randomly divided into 2 groups based on incision type; th...