Is extreme surgery so extreme?
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Is extreme surgery so extreme?
t first sight, using retinectomy for treating glaucoma seemed extreme , even when most of the eyes treated were legally blind. More than 20 years ago, Robert Machemer described performing retinotomy to relieve traction in two patients with retinal detachment complicated by proliferative vitreoretin-opathy (PVR). 1 At the time retinotomy was considered extreme and surgically the last resort. Sev...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.9.1057