Intracapsular Cataract Extraction Using Low Temperature.

Preliminary Report THE first report on the use of cryosurgery in cataract extraction was made by Krwawicz (1961); since then he has reported 660 extractions performed by this method. Kelman and Cooper (1963) have described its use in an unspecified number of.cases which included subluxated lenses and dislocated lenses. Bellows (1964) reported 6 cases. Rosengren (1965) gave the results of 120 cryoextractions. Experimental use of low temperature in ophthalmology was made by Scholar (1935) in producing an adhesive chorioretinitis in rabbits by the application of carbondioxide snow to the sclera. Bietti (1933) measured the fall in temperature at varying distances within the eye when dry ice and alcohol were applied to the sclera. Clinical use was made of the procedure in 1935 by Deutschmann, when he successfully produced an adhesive chorioretinitis in a case of retinal detachment.