Endoscope Assisted Ophthalmic Microsurgery

ABSTRACT

We would like to introduce endoscope assisted ophthalmic microsurgery. The endoscope system is made of endoscope body, colored moniter, handpiece. The handpiece consists of a 19G or 20G probe housing a fiber optic cable for the camera of a 380.000 pixel resolution, a fiber optic cable for a xenon light source and a working channel. The endoscope was useful to visualize the areas, such as the peripheral retina, posterior side of iris, that were not readily seen by conventional nor wide angle viewing techniques without indentation. Also it gave us good results in the hard visual field cases of corneal opacification or during fluid-gas exchange. using the endoscope permitted the vitreous base to be accurately observed and managed surgically through good visualization of peripheral retina. Intraocular procedure such as vitrectomy, subretinal fluid drainge, endophotocoahulation was performed easily under the endoscopic view, With the improvement of resolution power of the endoscope and the development of stereovision, the range of clinical usage of this technique will be expanded.