Manual of the Diseases of the Eye for Students And General Practitioners
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— (1) Operative, (2) non-operative, and (3) general. Operative Treatment consists of iridectomy (the excision of a portion of the iris), sclerotomy (an incision through the sclera), and various procedures having for their object the production of a cystoid scar or filtering cicatrix. Operative intervention is, in general terms, the most satis- factory treatment for glaucoma, certainly the inflammatory type, and probably also for the simple form, especially when increased tension is at all promi...nent. Until recently, iridec- tomy was the operation of choice and the one resorted to almost exclusively. Since a few years, however, various pro- cedures having for their object the production of a filtering cicatrix in the sclera, just beyond the limbus, have been used extensively. The most prominent of these are Lagrange's operation (sclerectomy combined with iridectomy), Herbert's operation (subconjunctival sclerotomy combined with iridec- tomy) and Elliot's operation {trephining the sclera combined with iridectomy), described on p.
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