PURPOSE To report a case of the expansion of submacular retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) atrophy after using the inverted internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap technique for a persisting, large, stage IV macular hole (MH). CASE REPORT A 79-year-old woman presented with a chronic large MH that remained open despite pars plana vitrectomy (PPV). The surgery was performed twice for the MH closure...

Background To assess closure rate after a single surgery of large macular holes and their visual recovery in the short term with three different surgical techniques. Methods Prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial. We included treatment-naïve patients with diagnosis of large macular hole (minimum diameter of > 400 µm). All patients underwent a comprehensive ophthalmological examin...

Intrinsic laryngeal muscles (ILM) are highly specialized muscles involved in phonation and airway protection, with unique properties that allow them to perform extremely rapid contractions and to escape from damage in muscle dystrophy. Due to that, they may differ from limb muscles in several physiological aspects. Because a better ability to handle intracellular calcium has been suggested to e...

The phenomenon referred to as illusory line-motion (ILM; O. Hikosaka, S. Miyauchi, & S. Shimojo, 1993a) has been described as a measure of the local facilitation of attention gradient. However, J. Kawahara, K. Yokosawa, S. Nishida, and T. Sato (1996) have demonstrated a spatially parallel search for an "odd man out" in the ILM direction. Apart from showing preattentive ILM perception in terms o...

besides the necessity of gaining the prerequisites of tafsir, the views of the early scholars about these prerequisites also had to be considered. the present article is to make clear that most of the exegetes did not really meet the prerequisites mentioned in their own preface. it also discuses about the preliminary sciences to tafsir which may be classified into seven general groups with some...

In 1988, intrinsic localized mode (ILM) was theoretically discovered as a temporary periodic and spatially localized solution in a nonlinear coupled oscillator. This discovery triggered wide-spread investigations on energy localization phenomena in spatially discrete systems. In particular, observations of the ILM in micro-mechanical cantilever arrays enable us to expect that energy localizatio...

PURPOSE To identify preoperative markers on spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) for residual inner limiting membrane (ILM) in epiretinal membrane (ERM) peeling. METHODS In this retrospective case series the preoperative SD-OCTs from 119 eyes of 119 consecutive patients who underwent surgery for idiopathic ERM by a single surgeon were evaluated for markers predisposing for IL...