title: Preretinal membranectomy in idiopathic preretinal macular fibrosis.
abstract: Idiopathic preretinal macular fibrosis (PMF) rarely causes progressive loss of vision. In 5 of 350 cases in which vision did markedly diminish, pars plana vitrectomy and membranectomy proved to be a useful surgical method of correcting the visual loss. There was an apparent recurrence of PMF in two of the five cases.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008266:Macula Lutea; D008297:Male; D008566:Membranes / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000601:surgery*; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D014821:Vitrectomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*