1585 cases of retinal detachment surgery with homologous skin as buckling material

Abstract

From January 1963 to December 1989, 1585 consecutive cases of retinal detachment were operated with homologous skin as buckling material, the rate of operative success being 91.6 %. Human skin is easy to obtain, sterilize and preserve, because of its appropriate thickness and firm but elastic consistency it satisfactorily meets the need to produce sufficient height and to maintain necessary duration of the scierai buckling, in addition to a high rate of reattachment, homologous skin implantation was well tolerated, very rarely rejected (0.06 %) and infected (0.25 %), and no late complications occurred. Therefore, the authors prefer using human skin as buckling agent rather than conventional synthetic material, e.g., silicon sponge etc.

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