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In the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre with an annual rate of 200 retinal detachment procedures, about the same incidence (4.5%) of diplopia after detachment surgery was found as by Fison and Chignell (1987). In 13 out of 18 patients with diplopia (sent for orthoptic evaluation between 01.01.1986 and 31.12.1987) double vision could be eliminated by various ways: orthophorization with or without temporary prismatic therapy was seen in 3 patients; a compensatory head posture eliminated diplopia in two cases, and prisms were effective in 4 cases (one of them had additional squint surgery). In 4 patients strabismus surgery alone restored binocular single vision. Binocular single vision was not restored in 5 cases.
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De Buy Wenniger-Prick, L.M., Van Mourik-Noordenbos, A. Diplopia after retinal detachment surgery. Doc Ophthalmol 70, 237–242 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00154460
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