Microendoscopic ocular surgery: a new intraoperative, diagnostic and therapeutic strategy. Part II: Preliminary results from the study of glaucomatous eyes.

Endoscopy allows intraoperative examination of the retroiridal space; this procedure has been used during the combined surgery of trabeculectomy, extracapsular extraction, and posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation. Information obtained by preoperative gonioscopic examination of the iridocorneal angle is presented with information obtained by intraoperative endoscopic examination of the iridocorneal and ciliary angles. Our initial endoscopic findings are impressive and include morphological analysis of ciliary processes, variations in their appearance, degree of opening of the iridociliary angle, and study of ciliary capillaries.