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Intraretinal silicone oil after retinal detachment repair
Andreas Ebneter1, Jagjit Singh Gilhotra
1*Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia, Australia †The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia ‡Adelaide Eye & Retina Centre, Adelaide, Australia.
Purpose:
To report a case of intraretinal silicone oil incorporation after anatomically successful detachment surgery.
Methods:
Retrospective case report.
Results:
We show a sequence of optical coherence tomography images documenting silicone oil incorporation from the vitreous cavity over a 3-months period. This resulted in foveal cystic spaces filled with a hyperreflective material and best-corrected visual acuity of 30/200.
Conclusion:
Intraretinal incorporation of silicone oil is rare and mainly occurs via subretinal access in cases with chronically detached retina. However, other mechanisms are possible. Here, we document a case of intraretinal silicone oil incorporation from the vitreous cavity after anatomically successful detachment surgery.
