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The mean annual incidence was 4,7 per
100000 inhabitants.
At St. Joseph's Hospital in Reykjavík 81
patients came for treatment, three of them
with binocular retinal detachment. Sixty four
eyes were treated with cryopexy and scleral
indentitation and eight eyes with diathermy
and scleral indentitation. Twelve eyes were
treated with cryopexy or diathermy alone.
The success rate was 60,7%. Good visual
acuity was regained in 29,4% (0,7—1,0 or better
than 6/9), but 23,5% did not get more than 0,1
(6/60), of whom 12 had considerable macular
degeneration.
The postoperative complication rate was
3,6%. There were three cases of endophthal-
mitis, althrough one ended up with visual acuity
of 0,2 (6/24).
The lower incidence of retinal detachment in
Iceland as compared to U.S.A. is duscussed.
Hryggjaraðgerð árið 1955. Stefán P. Björnsson og Bjarni Jónsson.