PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - C H Birchall
TI  - The fishmouth phenomenon in retinal detachment: old concepts revisited.
AID  - 10.1136/bjo.63.7.507
DP  - 1979 Jul 01
TA  - British Journal of Ophthalmology
PG  - 507--510
VI  - 63
IP  - 7
4099  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/63/7/507.short
4100  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/63/7/507.full
SO  - Br J Ophthalmol1979 Jul 01; 63
AB  - The 'fishmouth phenomenon' seen in some previously treated retinal detachments is associated with large horeshoe tears and scleral buckling techniques. A method of treating patients with this complication is described in which scleral buckling with implant or explant is not used. The technique utilises intravitreal air tamponade with cryopexy and gives good results. The incidence of patients developing the fishmouth phenomenon as a complication of parimary simple retinal detachment surgery is much lower when an intravitreal air technique is used than the expected incidence following a primary scleral buckling operation.