[Intraoperative diagnosis in removal of foreign bodies from the eye]

The efficacy of intraoperative application of a complex of diagnostic clinical and instrumental methods, including gonioscopy, biomicroscopy, ophthalmoscopy, electron location, transillumination, ultrasonic location, and acoustic scanning, has been demonstrated in surgeries for removal of foreign bodies from the eyes of 548 patients. Clinical variants of the fragment site and the aggravating factors were defined, as were the informative value of each of the afore-said methods for each of these clinical variants.