[The retro-equatorial muscular strapping. A technical adaptation of Cuppers's Faden-Operation. A preliminary report (author's transl)].

Abstract

Reckoning up the Balance-sheet of about 300 Faden-operations performed during two years in blocking convergent squints, the Authors note that whether this operation is absolutely appointed in various forms of horizontal incomitances in which the spasmodic factor is prevalent on the other hand in moderate forms it does not seem to give better results than classic muscular surgery. After having detailed the characteristics and technical difficulties of this operation, first they mention that its effects are unforeseeable in spite of a previous careful clinical examination; then moreover, it has a binding character. In many cases reoperations allowed to notice a considerable sclerosis of the formerly operated muscle and neighbouring capsule. To avoid these drawbacks, instead of a muscular fastening, they make a retroequatorial strapping on the sclera. They describe the successive steps in their procedure, which appears having many benefits with regard to the original Faden-operation.