PMC3656695_01
a Fundus oculi before episcleral surgery and Ozurdex injection. b Large tear in the superotemporal quadrant.
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F1
A 35-year-old Caucasian man presented with a macula-off rhegmatogenous subtotal retinal detachment extending 3 quadrants, sparing the inferior nasal quadrant, that had persisted for 1 month in his myopic left eye (fig. 1a). Fifteen days before the beginning of the symptoms, he had had an ocular blunt trauma and presented with a large tear in the superior temporal quadrant extending 2 clock hours (fig. 1b), and wrinkling of the edges of the retinal tear and the inner retinal surface, denoting a grade B PVR.
a Fundus oculi following episcleral surgery. b Intravitreal Ozurdex implant.
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F2
Cryotherapy was performed to achieve retinopexy (fig. 2a). At the end of the surgery, he received a single intravitreal injection, via pars plana, of dexamethasone 0.7 mg (Ozurdex) as off-label treatment (fig. 2b).