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Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:398-400.

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High-resolution cross-sectional imaging provided by optical coherence tomography (OCT) facilitates assessment of the postoperative as well as preoperative vitreoretinal state of idiopathic macular holes. Although the hole is considered to be closed in the first few postoperative days by studies using gas or silicone oil tamponade,^1-2 the detailed postoperative change in the fovea in the early postoperative period is unknown because of the poor quality of the image due to the use of gas or silicone oil. Impending macular hole may resolve either from spontaneous vitreous detachment or with vitrectomy with separation of the vitreous cortex from the retina. Herein we describe 2 patients with impending macular hole who underwent vitrectomy without gas tamponade and from whom we were able to obtain a series of good-quality OCT images from before and after surgery, and discuss the repair process of impending macular hole.

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A 65-year-old woman had a 1-week history of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Corresponding author: Akinori Uemura, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima City Hospital, 20-17 Kajiya-cho, Kagoshima-shi 892-8580, Japan (e-mail: akiu@ml.kch.kagoshima.kagoshima.jp).

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