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[Retinal whitening following vitrectomy for epiretinal macular membrane]
1Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan.
Nippon Ganka Gakkai Zasshi
|September 1, 1993
Abstract:
To investigate the clinical pictures of retinal whitening following epiretinal membrane dissection. I studied retrospectively the records of 18 eyes which had undergone vitrectomy. Two types of retinal whitening were observed: cotton wool-like spots within the superficial retinal layers and a linear or dendritic pattern within the deep retinal layers. The spots were mainly noted in idiopathic cases and resolved completely in a few weeks, and the pattern was observed in macular pucker cases after retinal detachment surgery and persisted for a long time after vitrectomy.