Spontaneous closure of a recurrent myopic macular hole previously repaired by pars plana vitrectomy

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Yonekawa, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Hirakata, Akito ^b   Inoue, Makoto ^b   Okada, Annabelle A ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CILIARY DISK; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ENDOTAMPONADE; EYE EXAMINATION; HUMAN; LENS IMPLANT; LETTER; MALE; MYOPIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIFOVEAL INTERNAL LIMITING MEMBRANE SEPARATION; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINA MACULA HOLE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY DETACHMENT;

HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; RECURRENCE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RETINAL PERFORATIONS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 80052096382     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2010.01981.x     Document Type: Letter

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