Recurrent choroidal detachment.

CHOROIDAL detachment following intra-ocular operation is a complication often encountered, but associated with other conditions or alone it is rare. It has been reported after orbital cellulitis, intra-ocular foreign body, tenonitis, scleritis, certain systemic diseases, and has also apparently occurred spontaneously. This report concerns a man who, at the age of 63, developed a choroidal detachment of the right eye after an operation for maxillary sinusitis on the same side; 10 months later the choroidal detachment had disappeared, and the appearance of the eye remained normal for nearly 5 years, when the detachment recurred, only to disappear again after 8 months.