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By Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, FASRS
Wills Eye Hospital / Mid Atlantic Retina
Co-author(s): David Xu, MD, Wills Eye Hospital, Mid Atlantic Retina - Uploaded on Jan 22, 2022.
- Last modified by Jennifer Carstens on Jan 24, 2022.
- Rating
- Appears in
- Miscellaneous
- Condition/keywords
- proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR), methotrexate, vitrectomy, retinectomy
- Photographer
- Christina Rowland
- Imaging device
- Optos California
- Description
- A middle-aged man underwent complex retinal detachment repair with vitrectomy, membrane peeling, relaxing retinectomy, and silicone oil tamponade. This is a wide-field image immediately after methotrexate injection during a postoperative clinic visit, for the prevention of proliferative vitreoretinopathy. The methotrexate bubble is seen inferiorly.