Inner retinal cleavage associated with idiopathic epiretinal membrane.
OBJECTIVE
To report a case of inner retinal cleavages that disappeared after idiopathic epiretinal membranes were removed.


METHODS
A 72-year-old woman with epiretinal membranes and inner retinal cleavages in her nonmyopic eye underwent pars plana vitrectomy and epiretinal membrane removal. Fundus examination and optical coherence tomography were performed before and after surgery.


RESULTS
Inner retinal cleavages disappeared after epiretinal membranes were removed.


CONCLUSIONS
We postulate that the inner retinal cleavages are associated with tangential retinal tractions.
From the Department of Ophthalmology, Nagoya University, Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Keiichi
K
Komeima
Yasuki
Y
Ito
Makoto
M
Nakamura
Hiroko
H
Terasaki