Acute infection after retinal detachment surgery.

Infection of silastic sponge implants after retinal detachment surgery continues to present a problem (Lincoff, Nadel and O'Connor, I970; Russo and Ruiz, I97I; Flindall, Norton, Curtin and Gass, I97I; Ruben and Fitzgerald, 1972). The widespread adoption of cryotherapy has changed the character of this infection from an acute syndrome with scleral abscess formation and intraocular signs, to that of an extraocular granuloma of later onset with minimal intraocular signs (Lincoff and others, I970). Our experience has been somewhat different, and in this paper we report a series of Io postoperative infections occurring within 2 weeks ofsurgery, seven ofwhich showed marked signs ofintraocular inflammation.