Table 1

HES data for various eye operations 1998–2004
		98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	% change over time

Code	Operation
	Oculoplastics
1	Excision of eye	1025	1000	989	921	1002	924	-9%
1.1	Exenteration	44	50	35	65	47	66	+50%
1.2	Enucleation	583	535	529	475	542	467	-20%
1.3	Evisceration	392	412	422	374	402	382	-3%

6.3	Decompression	168	164	203	198	227	230	+37%

18	Ptosis total	2457	2710	2662	3170	3307	3780	+54%
18.1	Levator muscle	1126	1239	1352	1373	1433	1616	+43%
18.2	Frontalis muscle	44	47	40	42	40	47	+7%
18.3	Fascia sling	163	120	181	163	136	131	+20%
18.5	Tarsomullerectomy	162	158	155	149	144	163	<1%
18.6	Aponeurosis repair	298	422	418	498	538	576	+93%
18.8	Ptosis other	658	718	734	939	1011	1246	+89%

	Strabismus
31–37	Strabismus total	13057	12358	12465	11750	11782	12021	-8%
31	Combined muscle	6612	6385	6495	6039	5937	6309	-5%
32	Muscle recession	3723	3345	3417	3200	3155	2735	-27%
33	Muscle resection	1195	1087	942	966	969	1043	-13%

	Cornea
46	Plastic ops cornea	2257	2247	2269	2130	2127	2201	-3%
46.2	Lamellar graft	181	164	205	225	258	288	+59%
46.3	Penetrating graft	1578	1674	1652	1426	1435	1405	-11%

	Glaucoma
60	Filtering ops total	9185	6909	5920	5354	5011	4957	-46%
60.1	Trabeculectomy	8622	6415	5421	4751	4282	4206	-51%

	Cataract
71	Extracapsular	8596	6483	5228	6119	6892	5385	-37%
73.3	PC capsulotomy	10423	11718	10964	9319	8523	7550	-28%
75.1	Lens insertion	191540	201979	230663	240210	261963	291477	+52%

	Retina
54	Bucking for RD	3791	3507	3322	2846	2779	2469	-35%
79.1,2	Vitrectomy	7308	8042	8483	9360	9319	10616	+45%
86.5	Fluorescein angio.	3676	3610	3111	3178	2821	2336	-36%

Clarke and Fraser BMC Ophthalmology 2006 6:37 doi:10.1186/1471-2415-6-37