Vitreous surgery as a supplement to anterior segment surgery

Selected vitreous surgery techniques can provide effective and safe means of supplementing anterior segment surgery for correction or avoidance of many problems. In my experience, the guillotine or piston action vitrectomy instruments are more effective and safer than those which have a rotating or oscillating action. Pars plana vitreous surgery has added a new dimension to anterior segment surgery. There is reason to hope that the future will bring further refinements of instrumentation and surgical technique and more precise knowledge of the indications and limitations of this type of surgery.