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Surgical Operations Applied to Vitreous Retinal Disease
Pyongyang, May 10 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang Ophthalmic Hospital has applied surgical operations to the vitreous retinal disease.

The disease is known as incurable in the world.

Different diseases cause vitreous retinal changes.

Vitreous body is opacified and retina desquamated by inflammatory diseases like uveitis and retinal phlebemphraxis, and metabolic diseases like tumor, diabetes and leukemia.

The hospital has treated the vitreous retinal disease by such operations as simple vitreous avulsion and scleral buckling.

The operations have proved effective in treating many patients.

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