Purpose: To report the successful treatment of a 78-year-old woman with bilateral mantle cell lymphoma involving the optic nerves. Chemotherapy initially was administered in the form of intravitreal methotrexate (MTX) monotherapy and was subsequently combined with systemic ibrutinib.
Methods: Retrospective case report.
Retin Cases Brief Rep
June 2015
Purpose: To describe a case of failed macular hole closure after vitrectomy with silicone oil tamponade because of a silicone oil microbubble.
Methods: This is a retrospective case review of a single patient's clinical course.
Results: Because of the inability of the patient to assume a prone position after vitrectomy for full-thickness macular hole, 1000-centistoke silicone oil tamponade was used at the initial repair.