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Internal gas tamponade is employed with no episcleral buckle and can be combined with or without a vitrectomy for the surgical treatment of some forms of retinal detachment. These techniques are for forms of retinal detachment with no proliferative vitreoretinopathy that are being operated upon for the first time and have one or several breaks located on the superior half of the retina. We compare these two techniques, their anatomical results, and their complications.
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Presented at the XVth Meeting of the Club Jules Gonin, Copenhagen, 10–15 August 1986
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van Effenterre, G., Haut, J., Larricart, P. et al. Gas tamponade as a single technique in the treatment of retinal detachment: is vitrectomy needed?. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 225, 254–258 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02150143
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