Peeling the internal limiting membrane in serous macular detachment associated with congenital optic disc pit

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 272-275

  Dai, Shuan ^a   Polkinghorne, Philip ^a  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE FUNDUS; EYE SURGERY; FORCEPS; HUMAN; INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE PEEL; LETTER; MALE; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; OPTIC PIT; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; STAINING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OPTIC DISK; RETINAL DETACHMENT;

EID: 0037815258     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9071.2003.00652.x     Document Type: Letter

References (16)

1. Brown GC, Shields JA, Goldberg RE. Congenital pits of the optic nerve head. I. Experimental studies in Collie dogs. Arch Ophthalmol 1979; 97: 1341-4.
2. Brown GC, Shields JA, Goldberg RE. Congenital pits of the nerve head. II. Clinical studies in humans. Ophthalmology 1980; 87: 51-65.
3. Gass JDM. Serous detachment of the macula secondary to optic disc pits. Am J Ophthalmol 1969; 67: 821-41.
4. Sugar HS. Congenital pits in the optic disc and their equivalents (congenital colobomas and colobomalike excavations) associated with submacular fluid. Am J Ophthalmol 1967; 63: 297-307.
5. Jack KM. Central serous retinopathy with optic pit treated with photocoagulation. Am J Ophthalmol 1969; 67: 519-21.
6. Montenegro M, Bonnet M. Optic nerve pits: Clinical and therapeutic review of 21 cases. J Fr Ophthalmol 1989; 12: 411-19.
7. Alexander TA, Billson FA. Vitrectomy and photocoagulation in the management of serous detachment associated with optic nerve pits. Aust J Ophthalmol 1984; 12: 139-42.
8. Lincoff H, Kreissig I. Optical coherence tomography of pneumatic displacement of optic disc pit maculopathy. Br J Ophthalmol 1998; 82: 367-72.
9. Yanyali A, Bonnet M. Treatment of macular detachment complicating optic disc colobomas pits: Long term results of the photocoagulation-gas combination. J Fr Ophtalmol 1993; 16: 523-32.
10. Bonnet M. Serous macular detachment associated with optic nerve pits. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1991; 229: 526-32.
11. Akiba J, Kakehashi A, Hikichi T, Trempe CL. Vitreous findings in cases of optic nerve pits and serous macular detachments. Am J Ophthalmol 1993; 116: 38-41.
12. Lincoff H, Schiff W, Krivoy D, Ritch R. Optic coherence tomography of optic disk pit maculopathy. Am J Ophthalmol 1996; 122: 264-6.
13. Lincoff H, Yannuzzi L, Singerman L et al. Improvement in visual function after displacement of the retinal elevations emanating from optic pits. Arch Ophthalmol 1993; 111: 1071-9.
14. Snead M, Jacobs P. Vitrectomy, argon laser, and gas tamponade for serous retinal detachment associated with an optic disc pit. A case report. Br J Ophthalmol 1991; 75: 381-2.
15. Gandorhof A, Kempik A. Role of vitreoretinal interface in the pathogenesis and therapy of macular disease associated with optic pits. Ophthalmologe 2000; 97: 276-9.
16. Kuhn F, Morris R, Mester V, Witherspoon CD. Internal limiting membrane removal for traumatic macular holes. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers 2001; 32: 308-15.