[Surgical management of divergent strabismus (author's transl)]

This study, about 111 cases of exodeviations, establishes a guideline for surgical management of divergent strabismus. First the main points of the clinical examination, and the different classifications of the exodeviations are exposed. Then the technics of surgical treatment are defined, with or without pre or post surgical orthoptic treatment. The conclusions are as following: -- some clinical elements guide our treatment: the refraction, the age at onset, the study of the deviation after constant use of prisms, the existence of A or V syndrome. -- The main points of the surgical management are: the age of surgery, the choice of technic (symmetrical or not), the usefulness of a transient overcorrection, and above all the quantative rules for the surgical treatment. So it as been possible to stress the functional result is quite depending on the clinical type of exodeviation.