27-Gauge Instruments for Retinal Detachment

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Maria H. Berrocal, MD, performs a vitrectomy in an eye with tractional and rhegmatogenous detachments in an eye of a 64-year-old patient with diabetic complications. The small-gauge instruments were particular ideal in this eye, Dr. Berrocal said, because they permitted delicate tissue dissection in an eye highly prone to complications.

Posted: 1/23/2015

27-Gauge Instruments for Retinal Detachment

Maria H. Berrocal, MD, performs a vitrectomy in an eye with tractional and rhegmatogenous detachments in an eye of a 64-year-old patient with diabetic complications. The small-gauge instruments were particular ideal in this eye, Dr. Berrocal said, because they permitted delicate tissue dissection in an eye highly prone to complications.

Posted: 1/23/2015

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