Clinical and histopathological report of sympathetic ophthalmia after retinal detachment surgery.

Sympathetic ophthalmia is a bilateral granulomatous panuveitis usually caused by penetrating injury presumably involving the uvea. Operative wounds are the second most common cause; more than half of these cases follow cataract operation.' Sympathetic ophthalmia has only rarely been reported after retinal detachment surgery. Winter2 in 1955 found only one such case in 95 cases of sympathetic ophthalmia following intraocular surgery. A few other cases have been reported.35 We present herein a case of sympathetic ophthalmia following retinal detachment surgery with histopathological confinnation of the disease.