[Diagnostic methods in retinal detachment].

Important diagnosis methods are anamnesis, visual acuity determination, visual field determination, anterior segment biomicroscopy, tonometry, gonioscopy. Great attention must be paid to the ophthalmoscopy with scleral indentation. The paper compare the advantages and disadvantages of direct ophthalmoscopy using Goldmann contact lens. A great importance has the graphical representation of the eye fundus pathology, and also applying Lincoff rules in the localisation of the retinal breaks in retinal detachment. As special methods in examination are revealed the diaphanoscopy, the angiofluorography, the computerized tomography, the tomography in magnetic resonance field, and also the utilization of the electrophysiological and echographic exams in retinal detachment diagnosis.