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A Technique for Facilitated Visualization and Dissection of the Vitreous Base, Pars Plana, and Pars Plicata
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A Technique for Facilitated Visualization and Dissection of the Vitreous Base, Pars Plana, and Pars Plicata

Timothy G Murray, H. Culver Boldt, Hilel Lewis, Gary W Abrams, William F Mieler and Dennis P Han
Archives of ophthalmology (1960), Vol.109(10), pp.1458-1459
10/01/1991
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.1991.01080100142062
PMID: 1929943

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Abstract

• We describe a technique to facilitate visualization of the vitreous base, pars plana, and pars plicata during vitreous surgery. This technique takes advantage of an externally applied fiberoptic light source coupled with scleral depression to enable direct viewing of the ciliary processes and anterior vitreous base. No special instrumentation or alteration in pars plana vitrectomy techniques is required. We have used this technique to enhance anterior dissection during vitrectomy surgery in the aphakic and pseudophakic eye associated with proliferative vitreoretinopathy, diabetic retinopathy, epithelial down-growth syndromes, and postvitrectomy fibrin formation.

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