Eye floaters can be a sign of retinal detachment, but there are many other causes. Some surgeries may help remove eye floaters that result from a detached retina. Eye floaters are when you see specks, ...

A retinal tear occurs when a break develops in the layer of light-detecting cells in the back of the eye. This layer is called your retina. Retinal detachment occurs when the retina pulls away from ...

The Cambridge Prophylactic Cryotherapy Protocol was developed with the rationale of preventing retinal detachment related to giant retinal tear, to which these patients are so prone. We have ...

The retina is a thin piece of tissue that sits on the back wall of the eye, says Brian VanderBeek, MD, an ophthalmologist at Penn Medicine and assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Hospital of ...