KOLOA, Hawaii — In cases of tractional detachments in pediatric patients, retinal surgeons need to be careful not to make iatrogenic breaks, a speaker here said.
“It's a little different than in diabetic patients in adults, where if you end up making a break, you can usually just flatten the retina by peeling more or doing a retinectomy, whatever you can to force the retina down, but you cannot do that in these severe detachments in kids,” Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, said at Retina 2023.
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