sclerotomy

“M. Nicati, in the _Revue generate de clinique et de therapeutique_, has had marked success in the treatment of glaucoma by drainage of the posterior chamber, either by sclerotomy or by sclero-iritomy, as the conditions of the individual case may require.”

Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891

“Their name is legion and among them we find peripheral iridectomy; anterior sclerotomy; irido-sclerotomy; scleriritomy; de”

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913

“It is in such cases that the success of the operation is increased by the addition of posterior sclerotomy and the intelligent use of miotics prior to the performance of the iridectomy.”

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913

“Walker's hyposcleral cyclotomy; posterior sclerotomy; T-shaped sclerotomy; and last but not least the Lagrange form of sclerectomy with its various modifications by Brooksbank James, myself and others.”

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913

“Sympathectomy has failed to secure a place in ophthalmic surgery, sclerotomy has not been found adequate, and cyclodialysis is not sufficiently simple of execution or permanently beneficial in its results to give it prominence.”

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913

“Lagrange therefore proposes the following rules of procedure: (a) If tensions is normal to +1, do sclerectomy without iridectomy, the amount of sclera excised being inversely proportionate to the degree of hypertension. (b) If tension is +1 to +3, do sclerotomy-iridectomy, the iridectomy being added to avoid entanglement of the iris.”

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913

“_transfixio iridis_ of Fuchs; Antonelli's peripheral iritomy; Holth's formation of a cystoid cicatrix; Hern's operation; Terson's sclero-iridectomy; Abadie's ciliarotomy; Ballantyne's incarceration of iris method; Masselon's small equatorial sclerotomy; Simi's equatorial sclerotomy; Galezowski's sclero-choriotomy; excision of the cervical ganglion; removal of the ciliary ganglion; Querenghi's operation of sclero-choriotomy; Bettremieux's simple anterior sclerectomy; Heine's cyclodialysis; Herbert's wedge-isolation operation; Verhoeff's operation with a special sclerotome; Holth's sclerectomy with a punch-forceps;”

Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913