title: Histopathology findings following retinal tack implantation.
abstract: For the first time this report describes the histopathological findings 2 months after retinal-tack implantation in a human eye. A stainless-steel tack was implanted to seal a small retinal tear during vitrectomy because of severe proliferative diabetic retinopathy in a 38-year-old man. By gross examination the enucleated eye showed a total retinal detachment except at the site where the tack had been implanted. Histologically a fibrovascular tissue proliferation arising from the choroid had grown into the adjacent retina at the tack site. No inflammatory reaction, pigment epithelium proliferation or glial-cell proliferation attributable to the tack were observed.
authors.affiliation: Universitäts-Augenklinik, Heidelberg, FRG.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Daus
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Völcker
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Alexandridis
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Käsmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000601:surgery; D015861:Retinal Neovascularization / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D012167:Retinal Perforations / Q000601:surgery*; D012591:Scleral Buckling / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014821:Vitrectomy; D014823:Vitreous Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology