title: Late Postoperative Evaluation of Retinal and Choroidal Thickness and Retinal Vessel Caliber after Surgical Repair of Corneal Perforation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the late period retinal and choroidal alterations in the posterior pole of eyes that underwent primary suturing due to traumatic corneal perforation.
  
  
  METHODS
  This cross-sectional case series included 21 eyes of 21 patients. The fellow eyes served as the control group. Macular thickness, peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness, choroidal thickness, and retinal vessel caliber measurements were performed by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean RNFL thickness was 102.1±10.9 µm in the perforated eyes and 99.5±8.5 µm in the fellow eyes (p=0.29). The mean central macular thickness was 300.1±25.6 µm in the perforated eyes and 295.6±23.2 µm in the fellow eyes (p=0.62). The choroidal thickness and retinal vascular caliber measurements were also similar between the groups (p>0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Operated traumatic corneal perforations do not cause significant posterior pole retinal and choroidal SD-OCT thickness changes in the late postoperative period.
authors: Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Denizli, Turkey.
authors: Gökhan
authors: G
authors: Pekel
authors: Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Denizli, Turkey.
authors: Semra
authors: S
authors: Acer
authors: Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Denizli, Turkey.
authors: Nihal
authors: N
authors: Cesur
authors: Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Denizli, Turkey.
authors: Ramazan
authors: R
authors: Yağcı
authors: Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Denizli, Turkey.
authors: Ebru
authors: E
authors: Nevin Çetin
keywords: Corneal perforation; choroidal thickness; macular thickness; peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness; retinal vascular caliber