[Intolerance causes of indentation material in retinal detachment surgery (author's transl)]

129 Lincoff sponge's rejection, representing 4,3% of our retinal detachment surgeries during 4 years have been studied. Men were twice more than women, the larger the amount of material was placed the more frequent rejections appeared. Most rejections (56,2%) occured during the first 4 months. Percentage of infection was roughly not influenced by the time after retinal detachment surgery.