[Treatment with silicone oil in complicated retinal detachment. Anatomopathological test of 2 enucleated eyes]

Two eyes with a complicated retinal detachment were operated using intraocular silicone oil injection. They were enucleated 33 and 12 months after the operation because of painful secondary glaucoma and corneal dystrophy. Using light and electron microscopy, silicone oil vacuoles were observed in the corneal depth, the iris stroma, the trabecular meshwork and in lens remnants. There was an angle closure due to iridocorneal synechia. The same vacuoles were recognized in epiretinal membranes, in the internal and external layers of the retina and in the pigment epithelium. When the retina was detached, silicone oil vacuoles were present in the choroidal vessels.