The comparative value of enucleation and the operations which have been substituted for it / by G. E. de Schweinitz.

  • George Edmund de Schweinitz
Date:
[1900]
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    Simple Evisceration or Exenteration.—[Ctmlim/ed.) Surgeon. Number of Opera- tions. Excessive Reaction. Sloughing Sclera. Painful Stump. Meningitis. Sympathetic Ophthal- mitis OR Irritation. Remarks. H. Gifford. IOC 2 On the whole, mobility of stump and shell decidedly better than after enuclea- tion, but can not give enough measurements to be of value. Now always does this operation accord- ing to his special method [q. v., p. 3). A. B. Hale. 3 Mobility of stump and shell not so good as after enu- cleation. G. C. Harlan. Considera- ble num- ber. Fre- quent. Mobility of stump not much tion. C. W. Hawley. A. G. Hobbs. ^ 12 3 2 3 2 Mobility better in 3, about the same as after enuclea- tion in 6, not so good in 3. No particulars of sympa- thetic cases given. F. C. Hotz. A few. All. In a few months eviscera- tion-stump shrinks, and is no better than socket after enucleation. L. Howe. 2 2 Little or no increase in mo- bility of stump and shell as compared with enucleation. E. E. Jack. 3 Mobility of stump and shell greater than after simple enucleation. H. Knapp. Small number. I Once saw noninfective throm- bosis of orbital veins as a sequel; stump not much better than after enuclea- tion.
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