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Intrusion of an encircling buckle after retinal detachment surgery
Tolga Birgul1, Bertram Vidic, Yosuf El-Shabrawi
1Department of Ophthalmology, Karl Franzens University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Purpose:
To report a patient with intrusion of the encircling buckle late postoperatively after surgical treatment of a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
Design:
Interventional case report.
Methods:
We performed an encircling buckle procedure on a 77-year- old woman with a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Four years after the operation, the encircling buckle intruded into the vitreous cavity.
Results:
After 3 months of diagnosis of the intrusion, the retina was detached totally.
Conclusions:
Intrusion of the encircling buckle without any additional segmental buckling element is a very rare late complication of retinal detachment surgery.
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