Abstract
Minor degrees of iridodialysis are frequently observed, and are known to be corrected in many instances by the simple measure of instillation of atropine immediately following the injury. Many of these, when atropine fails to correct them, cause no visual disturbance and may be insignificant in appearance. But extensive defects of this nature, involving one-fourth and more of the basal attachment of the iris, are relatively rare in cases in which the integrity of the globe is retained and the question of visual efficiency is at stake. These cases present a very striking deformity when viewed in any detail, which is often of as much concern to the patient as is the visual disturbance. The correction of this extensive defect has been reported also to have been accomplished by the use of instillation of atropine. But when this emergency treatment fails, if the globe is retained, and the symptoms justify
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