Sectoral distribution of goniosynechiae.

IT is the general opinion that, in eyes suffering from closed-angle glaucoma, goniosynechiae are not uncommon, especially if such eyes have had an acute or sub-acute attack of hypertension. The present investigation has been undertaken to ascertain whether these goniosynechiae are distributed at random round the angle or, as clinical impression suggests, tend to occur more in the upper than the lower half; it includes a similar survey of closedangle glaucoma in the chronic phase and of simple glaucoma. Barkan (1938) mentioned that peripheral anterior synechiae tend to occur first superiorly in the angle.