[Buckling Surgery: Old Fashioned or Cutting Edge?]

For many decades, scleral buckling surgery was the only reasonable surgical procedure in eyes with primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. In recent years, primary vitrectomy has apparently become the treatment of choice, although evidence from comparative clinical trials is missing. In this article, data from clinical trials and indications for buckling surgery are presented.
Competing Interests: Nein.
(Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.)