Is removal of internal limiting membrane always necessary during stage 3 idiopathic macular hole surgery?

Retina

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-58

  Kimura, Tetsushi ^a   Takahashi, Masayo ^b   Takagi, Hitoshi ^a   Kiryu, Junichi ^a   Nishiwaki, Hirokazu ^a   Tanabe, Teruyo ^a   Suzuma, Kiyoshi ^a   Oh, Hideyasu ^a   Honda, Yoshihito ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eye; Internal limiting membrane (ILM); Macular hole (MH); Optical coherence tomography; Posterior vitreous detachment (PVD); Vitrectomy

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA MACULA HOLE; RETINA SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLIT LAMP; TREATMENT INDICATION; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 13844251850     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200501000-00007     Document Type: Article

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