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180° Retinotomy

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The following chapter describes step by step the surgical technique of a 180° retinotomy.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ulrich Spandau & Zoran Tomic

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  1. Ulrich Spandau
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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ulrich Spandau

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

    Zoran Tomic

  3. Retina Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain

    Diego Ruiz-Casas

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Spandau, U., Tomic, Z. (2018). 180° Retinotomy. In: Spandau, U., Tomic, Z., Ruiz-Casas, D. (eds) Retinal Detachment Surgery and Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78446-5_14

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