Editing Ignipuncture

{{Short description|Closing a retinal separation by cauterisation}}
'''Ignipuncture''' ([[Latin]]: ''Ignis'' (fire) + ''puncture'') is the procedure of closing a [[Retinal detachment|retinal separation]] by transfixation of the break via [[cauterization]]. The procedure was pioneered and named by [[Jules Gonin]] in the early 1900s.<ref name="Wolfensberger">{{cite journal | last1 = Wolfensberger | first1 = TJ | title = Jules Gonin. Pioneer of retinal detachment surgery | journal = Indian Journal of Ophthalmology | volume = 51 | issue = 4 | pages = 303–8 | year = 2003 | pmid = 14750617 }}</ref> Due to the risk of severe complications and the advent of lasers for the controlled delivery of energy, ignipuncture became an obsolete procedure; since the 1980s, ignipuncture has been performed using safer techniques like [[endophotocoagulation]].{{cn|date=January 2022}}

==See also==
* [[Eye surgery]]

==References==
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