[Surgical treatment of retinal detachment without drainage: apropos of 100 consecutive cases]

Recent advances in retinal detachment surgery must end in a simplification of the techniques: cryo-applications associated with a scleral buckling by one or more Lincoff sponges parallel to the equator seems to be satisfactory in almost all cases. Subretinal drainage, whatever technique used, does not seem to ameliorate significantly the evolution which depends, essentially, on the indentation and localisation quality. Furthermore, scleral perforation seemed to caused supplementary complications in an important number of cases. Analytical review of 100 consecutive cases.