[A study of the applicability of biological adhesives to the insertion of an external ocular muscle in rabbits--II. Experiment II--Measurement of the distances from the nasal and temporal muscles to the limbus and of the extent of tissue adhesion].

Purpose: Measure the extent of mioscleral adhesion on the fortieth postoperative day.

Methods: Fifteen New Zealand rabbits were divided into three groups of five rabbits. They were operated on to server the insertion of the rectus muscle in the eye and then to reinsert it.

[A study of the applicability of biological adhesives to the reinsertion of an external ocular muscle in rabbits--I experiment I--measurements of duration of procedures, and clinical and histopathologic studies].

Purpose: To measure the duration of the operation, the strength of tissue adhesion, and to perform a clinical and histopathological study of ocular reinsertion of superior rectus muscles of rabbits with four different tissue adhesives, as an alternative to the use of polyglactin suture in strabismus surgeries.

Methods: One hundred New Zealand rabbits were used for two experiments: I-A and I-B, with fifty rabbits for each experiment. These groups were further divided into five groups of ten rabbits (twenty eyes), which were subjected to the removal of the superior rectus muscle of both eyes, either with suture (control) or tissue adhesive: polyglactin 910, 6-0 suture and tissue adhesives made of fibrin, cyanoacrylate, albumin-glutaraldehyde and gelatine-resorcinol-formaldehyde-glutaraldehyde.