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MEGALOCORNEA AND ITS SURGICAL COMPLICATIONS
Author(s) -
Hamilton J. Bruce
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1951.tb03743.x
Subject(s) - medicine , complication , surgery , ophthalmology , cataract extraction , retinal detachment , eye disease , retinal
Summary1 Megalocornea is undoubtedly a definite clinical entity, but like buphthalmos is subject to raised intra‐ocular tension. 2 Only 25 per cent. of cases of megalocornea are so involved, whereas in 100 per cent. of buphthalmos the intra‐ocular tension is raised. 3 This increase in intra‐ocular tension is a very important complication and must be watched for in megalocornea in adult life. 4 In one case it occurred at the age of 30 years, but in the oldest case it did not appear until about 60 years of age. 5 This complication appears 3 times as com‐ monly in females as in males. 6 Senile cataract is a further complication and the extraction of this type of cataract appears to be followed frequently by spontaneous retinal detachment.