Intrusion of an encircling buckle after retinal detachment surgery.
OBJECTIVE
To report a patient with intrusion of the encircling buckle late postoperatively after surgical treatment of a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.


METHODS
Interventional case report.


METHODS
We performed an encircling buckle procedure on a 77-year- old woman with a rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Four years after the operation, the encircling buckle intruded into the vitreous cavity.


RESULTS
After 3 months of diagnosis of the intrusion, the retina was detached totally.


CONCLUSIONS
Intrusion of the encircling buckle without any additional segmental buckling element is a very rare late complication of retinal detachment surgery.
Birgul
Tolga
T
Department of Ophthalmology, Karl Franzens University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
Vidic
Bertram
B
El-Shabrawi
Yosuf
Y
D000368:Aged; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D012591:Scleral Buckling / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012826:Silicone Elastomers; D014822:Vitreous Body / Q000473:pathology*
D012826:Silicone Elastomers