[An analysis of the characteristic features of juvenile detachment (author's transl)]

A report on 51 children and young people of up to 20 years of age with retinal detachment; the authors have attempted an analysis of the characteristic features of juvenile detachment, which for 4.6% of all cases of amotio. The male/female ratio is 4 : 1. Inexplicably, amotio occurs more frequently in the left eye than in the right. Most of the cases described (53.6%) were caused by trauma. Dialysis was the most common type of tear found, whereas not a single horseshoe break was observed. In spite of a healing rate of 79%, only one-third of the children attained a visual acuity of 12/20 to 20/20, usually because of a macular impairment.