The importance of circular scleral buckling in the treatment of recurrent rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. Part 1. The origin and development of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment extrascleral surgery

Abstract

Scleral buckling was gold standard of surgical treatment of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment for more than half a century. This literary review is focused on the origin and development stages of scleral buckling surgery over the world.

Keywords

• circular scleral buckling
• rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
• vitreoretinal surgery
• retina