Repair of an inadvertent buttonhole or leaking filtering bleb.
Buttonholing of conjunctival flaps at the time of filtering glaucoma surgery or a leak in the flap postoperatively can cause serious problems and may be most difficult to repair. A new delicate atraumatic needle has been used successfully in five cases to close conjunctiva to conjunctiva or conjunctiva to cornea defects.
D000368:Aged; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000601:surgery*; D003315:Cornea / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery; D013537:Sutures; D014129:Trabecular Meshwork / Q000601:surgery*