[Results of exophthalmometry. Incidence of ciliary-choroid detachment].

Examinations of 87 patients with different positions of the eyeball in the orbit have revealed that if the eyeball sinks even slightly deeper in the orbit than normally, collapse of the cornea is observed during cataract extraction and ciliary-choroid detachment develops during the postoperative period. If the eyeball protrudes forward no corneal collapse or ciliary-choroid detachment occur.