[Use of muscle surgery sutures in retinal detachment operations (author's transl)].

In cases of surgery in retinal detachment, borrowing of techniques employed in strabismus surgery is recommended. The opening of the conjunctiva and Tenon's capsule and careful placement of the final suture as published by Cüppers avoids or at least diminishes postoperative cicatrization, retraction, and resulting disturbances of motility and double images. In case where one are several muscles have to be cut, the exact strabismic muscle surgery helps this treatment. In these cases, statistical results are mentioned. Furthermore in cases of high myopia and especially those combined with nystagmus, the so called Cüpper's "Fadenoperation" gives excellent results. Three cases operated on by this technique, in which no other method succeeded, are demonstrated.