Replantation of one third of the ciliary body after severe impalement injury.

A massive impalement injury to a 46-year-old man led to corneoscleral laceration, partial aniridia, traumatic cataract and rupture of the orbiculus ciliaris of more than one third of the circumference with extreme hypotony and practically blinding. In addition there was a massive circular haemorrhage into the suprachorioidal space. The course of the operative intervention leading to complete replantation of the ciliary body and so finally to normalisation of the intraocular pressure is described. The gratifying course could have been favoured by the diffuse retrochorioidal haemorrhage.