Correction of late operative complications by means of a suction cutter.

In a large proportion of late operative complications after anterior segment surgery good results can be achieved only by the use of a suction cutter. A review of the results of 120 such corrections carried out over a period of 20 months at Groote Schuur Hospital, including the operative and postoperative complications and final visual acuities, showed that the use of the suction cutter was most beneficial, except in cases of aphakic glucoma with blocked drainage sites. In all other cases only one operation was necessary and in those in which obstruction to vision was pupillary pathology only all the patients obtained a visual acuity of 6/9 or better.