[Recovery of rod and cone systems after retinal detachment surgery]

The paper reports on the threshold values for light perception of circumscript retinal areas for different adaptation levels in patients successfully operated for retinal detachment. The examinations were carried out by means of the Tübingen projection perimeter, using the method of static perimetry in a meridian containing an approximately equal area of healthy and of formerly detached retina. The main aim of this examination was to establish whether both retinal photoreceptor systems recover within the same time after the operation. There is various evidence that the restitutions of the rod and cone systems do not occur at the same time.