EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor: William Charles Caccamise, Sr, MD, Retired Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

*Dr. Caccamise has very generously shared his images of patients taken while operating during the "eye season" in rural India as well as those from his private practice during the 1960's and 1970's. Many of his images are significant for their historical perspective and for techniques and conditions seen in settings in undeveloped areas.

Category: Cornea

Optical iridectomy: a part of the history of ophthalmic surgery

The optical iridectomy is a part of ophthalmic history. Almost daily eye that hah had this procedure were seen in the Clinic. This photo was taken by Dr. Caccamise in 1961.

a bit more difficult to see the optical iridectomy in this untouched original slide taken in 1961.

Ophthalmic Atlas Images by EyeRounds.org, The University of Iowa are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.