PATHOLOGY OF COMPLICATIONS OF INTRAOCULAR SURGERY

Complications secondary to intraocular surgery accounted for 17% of 739 surgically enucleated eyes accessioned at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in 1968. Surgical trauma ranked second as a cause of enucleation. The majority of complications were due to corneal trauma, loss of vitreous or faulty closure of the wound. They included fibrous downgrowth, which was correlated with a stripping of Descemet's membrane and occurred in some cases following small incisions; epithelial invasion, which was caused by improper wound closure and/or toilet; and expulsive hemorrhage, which occurred after surgery had been completed in most cases and which followed purulent inflammation in half of the cases. © 1969.