title: Posterior relaxing retinotomy.
abstract: Three patients with retinal detachments complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy underwent posteriorly located relaxing retinotomy to facilitate retinal reattachment. Six months postoperatively the retina remained attached in all cases, with an improvement in visual acuity in two cases (light perception to hand motion and 20/200 to 20/60) and a drop of one line in visual acuity in the third (20/20 to 20/25).
authors: Department of Ophthalmology, Louisiana State University Medical Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans.
authors: C M
authors: CM
authors: Gremillion
authors: G A
authors: GA
authors: Peyman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D012591:Scleral Buckling; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014822:Vitreous Body