[The influence of blood coagulation on cicatrization of the filtering scar following goniotrepanation (author's transl)].

An examination of 43 eyes which had undergone goniotrepanation in accordance with Fronimopoulos showed that blood coagulation plays a major part in the postoperative cicatrization of the filtering scar. Patients with short postoperative haemorrhages or with high rates of thrombocytes tend to suffer postoperative hypertension of the eye, whereas patients with haemorrhages of over 1 minute or with low rates of thrombocytes often have the clinical symptoms of postoperative hypotony.