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Discussion 165<br />

30%<br />

25%<br />

20%<br />

15%<br />

10%<br />

5%<br />

0%<br />

The odds ratio of the pooled procedures, i.e., 3384 intraocular<br />

gas operations and vitrectomies versus 1854 extraocular sponge<br />

and balloon buckles, for the risk of second surgery, was:<br />

(680/2704)<br />

08 = 2.5 to 1<br />

(107/1684)<br />

and for PVR:<br />

(187/2927)<br />

07 = 6 to 1 .<br />

(17/1685)<br />

Discussion<br />

second surgery PVR<br />

pneumatic<br />

retinopexy<br />

vitrectomy<br />

buckling<br />

Fig. 8.1. Pool risk of second surgery and proliferative vitreoretinopathy<br />

(PVR)<br />

In the latter half of the twentieth century, the buckle operations invented<br />

by Charles Schepens in 1951 [63] and Ernst Custodis in 1953<br />

[64] were modified and refined. Diathermy was replaced with cryo-

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