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Within a 4-year period 6 eyes with a macular hole and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (1.7% of all rhegmatogenous detachments) were operated on. In 2 eyes no other retinal tears were found, 4 eyes showed additional peripheral tears. Three eyes were myopic (-3.75 to -9.0 D) and one was aphakic. All but one eye were encircled, 3 eyes had a peripheral radial plomb and another 3 had a macular sling procedure using a silastic sponge explant in addition. Cryotherapy was applied on the macular hole in one eye and photocoagulation in one eye. In 5 of the 6 cases the retina reattached. The silastic sponge sling resulted in shallow indentation and caused little distortion at the macula. Coagulation of the macular hole seemed to be unnecessary.
L Laatikainen, and
H Harju
April 1975,
Transactions of the ophthalmological societies of the United Kingdom,
L Laatikainen, and
H Harju
May 1996,
Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand = Chotmaihet thangphaet,
L Laatikainen, and
H Harju
January 2005,
Retina (Philadelphia, Pa.),
L Laatikainen, and
H Harju
April 1990,
The British journal of ophthalmology,
L Laatikainen, and
H Harju
June 1993,
Klinika oczna,
L Laatikainen, and
H Harju
June 1967,
Nihon ganka kiyo,
L Laatikainen, and
H Harju
March 1983,
American journal of ophthalmology,
L Laatikainen, and
H Harju
January 1986,
Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie,
L Laatikainen, and
H Harju
June 1988,
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960),
