Scleral Buckle Removal: Indications and Outcomes

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 253-263

  Tsui, Irena ^a,b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Extrusion; Infection; Inflammation; Intrusion; Pain; Redetachment; Removal; Scleral buckle; Scleral buckling; Surgery

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COLLAGEN; GELATIN; IMIPENEM; POLYETHYLENE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; SILICONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ANTERIOR SEGMENT ISCHEMIA; BIOFILM; CHOROID DISEASE; CHOROID EFFUSION; CRYOTHERAPY; DACRON IMPLANT; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIATHERMY; DIPLOPIA; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE DISEASE; EYE INFECTION; EYE PAIN; FASCIA LATA; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; KERATOMILEUSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULA CYSTOID EDEMA; RETINA MACULA DISTORTION; RETINA MACULOPATHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCLERA ABSCESS; SCLERA BUCKLING PROCEDURE; SCLERAL BUCKLE; SUBRETINAL FLUID; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRECTOMY;

DEVICE REMOVAL; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETINAL DETACHMENT; SCLERAL BUCKLING; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 84859846552     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: 18793304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2011.11.001     Document Type: Review

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