Scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery

Scleral ulceration after ocular surgery is a rare but serious complication. Determination of the underlying systemic and local causes is critical for treatment. An unusual case of ischemic scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery in a diabetic patient is reported. Patient was successfully trea...

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Autor principal: Gokhale, Nikhil S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19574702
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.53059
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description Scleral ulceration after ocular surgery is a rare but serious complication. Determination of the underlying systemic and local causes is critical for treatment. An unusual case of ischemic scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery in a diabetic patient is reported. Patient was successfully treated with a pedicle conjunctival graft.
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spelling pubmed-27127032009-07-29 Scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery Gokhale, Nikhil S Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Scleral ulceration after ocular surgery is a rare but serious complication. Determination of the underlying systemic and local causes is critical for treatment. An unusual case of ischemic scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery in a diabetic patient is reported. Patient was successfully treated with a pedicle conjunctival graft. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2712703/ /pubmed/19574702 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.53059 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery
title Scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery
title_full Scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery
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title_short Scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery
title_sort scleral ulceration after vitreoretinal surgery
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2712703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19574702
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.53059
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