title: [Retinal whitening following vitrectomy for epiretinal macular membrane].
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan.
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authors.lastname: Uemura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004210:Dissection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008266:Macula Lutea / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008566:Membranes / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014821:Vitrectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*