Open AccessA Comparative Study of Traditional Scleral Buckling to a New Technique: Guarded Light Pipe with Heads-Up Three-Dimensional Visualization
Author(s) -
Grace Baldwin,
Jared T. Sokol,
Cassie A. Ludwig,
John B. Miller
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
clinical ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.025
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1177-5483
pISSN - 1177-5467
DOI - 10.2147/opth.s378179
Subject(s) - medicine , scleral buckling , interquartile range , ophthalmology , retinal detachment , surgery , retinal , cataract surgery
The guarded light pipe is a recently described alternative endoillumination technique to chandelier illumination. We sought to compare the outcomes of scleral buckling (SB) under indirect ophthalmoscopy (ID) to heads-up three-dimensional visualization with a guarded light pipe (3DGLP).