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TRAUMA AND RETINAL DETACHMENT
Author(s) -
SYRDALEN PER
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1970.tb08221.x
Subject(s) - psychology , optometry , ophthalmology , medicine
Traumatic ruptures in the anterior chamber angle are frequently seen as a result of ocular contusion (Ti injum 1966). When these changes are seen in eyes with retinal detachment, they may be taken as proof of previous ocular contusion (WoZff &Zimmernian 1962, Cox et al. 1966). A history of trauma is very often reported by retinal detachment patients and it would be of interest to know the incidence of chamber angle ruptures due to contusion in these eyes. Gonioscopic findings in eyes with retinal detachment have been reported by Sebestyen et al. (1962), but chamber angle lesions due to contusion were not dealt with by these authors, and the incidence of these changes in eyes with retinal detachment, has not yet been evaluated. Pigmentation of the anterior chamber angle occurs more frequently with advancing age both in normal and in glaucomatous eyes (Zuege et al. 1967), and more frequently in glaucoma capsulare than in eyes with primary open angle glaucoma (Hiirven 1966). As retinal detachment is a disease of age and also a disease seen in connection with trauma, eye surgery, uveitis and other eye diseases, angle pigmentation is not expected to be less in detachment eyes than what seen in a normal population. In order to get more information about width, pigmentation and traumatic