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ULTRASONOGRAPHIC BIOMETRY IN CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA
Author(s) -
TARKKANEN AHTI,
UUSITALO RISTO,
MIANOWICZ JERZY
Publication year - 1983
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.1755-3768.1983.tb04352.x
Subject(s) - medicine , ophthalmology , glaucoma , congenital glaucoma
Method ‘A’ ultrasonographic biometry was perfomed on 23 patients with congenital glaucoma. The axial lengths of these eyes were significantly greater as compared to the 7 fellow eyes with normal intraocular pressures of the same patients and 10 eyes of 5 patients with megalocornea of the same age. Some of the borderline cases showed an increase of axial length during follow‐up not attributable to normal growth. After successful surgery an early decrease of the axial length up to 0.8 mm could be seen. The change occurred in post‐equatorial measurements. It is concluded that ultrasonographic biometry is a very valuable additional technique for the diagnosis and postoperative follow‐up of congenital glaucomas.