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The following chapter describes step-by-step the surgical management of an intraocular tumor biopsy. The chapter contains the surgical management of a transretinal tumor biopsy, a transscleral tumor biopsy, an anterior chamber tumor biopsy, a vitreous biopsy, a chorioretinal biopsy, and last but least an intraocular biopsy in suspected lymphoproliferative disease.
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Transretinal tumor biopsy with 25G cutter and three-way tap inserted into suction line (MP4 25320 kb)
Hemostasis with cutter when withdrawing the cutter from the retinal wound (MP4 36093 kb)
Preretinal hemorrhage after removal of the biopsy specimen, cleared with limited vitrectomy (MP4 26319 kb)
Transscleral tumor biopsy (MP4 10947 kb)
Iris biopsy of an iris melanoma using Healon and biopsy forceps only (MP4 2532 kb)
Retino-choroidal biopsy with vitreous cutter and silicone oil tamponade in vitreoretinal lymphoma (MP4 18550 kb)
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Spandau, U., Heimann, H. (2018). Intraocular Tumor Biopsies. In: Practical Handbook for Small-Gauge Vitrectomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89677-9_19
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