Scleral resection lamellar or penetrating.

IT affords me much pleasure to dedicate this short paper to Professor Dr. Karl Lindner as he has always been much interested in the subject of detachment of the retina in all its aspects. It was he who re-introduced Muller's operation for the treatment of cases of retinal detachment with unfavourable prognosis (Lindner, 1933) and his operation was taken up by Pischel (1945), Borley (1949), and Vail (1948) in the United States, and later by Lister (1951a) Philps (1951) and myself (Shapland, 1951a) in Great Britain. In the summer of 1949, I, in my turn, modified Lindner's operation in three ways: (1) by making the excision of the scleral strip " lamellar ", i.e. leaving in situ a very thin film of the deepest scleral lamellae to protect the choroid, (2) by combining the lamellar sclerectomy with, most usually, chemical (caustic potash), but occasionally with diathermy coagulation over the retinal tears, (3) \by the use of silk sutures for approximating the two edges of the excised scleral strip.