
NEW YORK — Scleral buckling may offer good outcomes for retinal detachment, but only 43.5% of children requiring surgery for retinal detachment receive it, according to a speaker.
“[Retinal detachment in children] is something that we may not see every single day but something that we’ve all encountered on a semiregular basis,” Yoshihiro Yonekawa, MD, FASRS, said at the American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting. “It’s something that we don’t have too much good data on.”
Yonekawa and colleagues performed a multicenter cohort analysis of