Pneumatic retinopexy: new breaks for old?
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Complications of pneumatic retinopexy.
Twenty-eight patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment were treated by pneumatic retinopexy using intravitreal perfluorpropane (C3F8) gas. Reattachment was successfully achieved in 22 eyes (78.6%) after one treatment. Most of the eyes were myopic and had a single retinal break or group of breaks within one o'clock hour. All retinal complications developed in the inferior retinal quadrants...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eye
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0950-222X,1476-5454
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1999.212