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By Norman Byer
From Dr. Norman E. Byer’s “The Peripheral Retina in Profile” - Uploaded on Nov 9, 2012.
- Last modified by Suber S. Huang, MD, MBA, FASRS on Feb 10, 2013.
- Reviewed by Chayal Patel
- Rating
- Appears in
- Miscellaneous
- Condition/keywords
- adjacent tears, posterior vitreous detachment, retinal tear, acute posterior vitreous detachment, bridge of tissue between tears
- Description
- In this 50-year-old man, these two adjacent tears are separated by a narrow band of tissue but have a common flap. They were caused by a posterior vitreous detachment and they are surrounded by a localized area of detachment. This case is similar to slide pair 53.
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