title: [Surgery of senile cataract; technical suggestions (author's transl)].
abstract: This study is intended in particular for the isolated specialist complied to practice cataract surgery with limited means. The author proposes his solutions to a series of problems encountered in the course of his long career. The plea for local anesthesia is followed by a paragraph on "potentialized akinesia", a method conceived by the author, resulting in a perfect orbicular relaxation. The following paragraphs deal in turn with matters of lighting, means of magnification, pre-operative hypotony, incidents of shock, phimosis of the conjunctival sac and the different steps of the operation proper with the manyfold problems they arouse and the practical solution for each.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D005143:Eyelids / Q000187:drug effects; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000628:therapy; D008029:Lighting; D008866:Microsurgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D003473:Neuromuscular Nondepolarizing Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000601:surgery
chemical_list: D003473:Neuromuscular Nondepolarizing Agents
vernacular_title: La chirurgie de la cataracte sénile. Suggestions techniques.