Editing Vitrectomy (section)

{{Short description|Surgery to remove vitreous humor from the eye}}
{{Infobox medical intervention |
  Name        = Vitrectomy |
  Image       = Vitrectomy-23g.jpg |
  Caption     = Three port 23-gauge vitrectomy|
  ICD10       = |
  ICD9        = {{ICD9proc|14.73}}-{{ICD9proc|14.74}} |
  MeshID      = D014821 |
  OPS301      = |
  OtherCodes  = |
}}

'''Vitrectomy''' is a surgery to remove some or all of the [[vitreous humor]] from the [[Human eye|eye]].

'''Anterior vitrectomy''' entails removing small portions of the vitreous humor from the front structures of the eye—often because these are tangled in an intraocular lens or other structures.

'''''Pars plana'' vitrectomy''' is a general term for a group of operations accomplished in the deeper part of the eye, all of which involve removing some or all of the vitreous humor—the eye's clear internal jelly.

Even before the modern era, some surgeons performed crude vitrectomies. For instance, Dutch surgeon Anton Nuck (1650–1692) claimed to have removed vitreous by suction in a young man with an inflamed eye.<ref name="Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases">{{cite journal |vauthors = Leffler CT, Schwartz SG |title = A Family of Early English Oculists (1600–1751), With a Reappraisal of John Thomas Woolhouse (1664-1733/1734) |journal = Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases |volume = 9 |pages = 1179172117732042 |year = 2017 |pmid = 28989288 |pmc = 5624362 |doi = 10.1177/1179172117732042 }}</ref> In Boston, [[John Collins Warren (surgeon, born 1778)|John Collins Warren]] (1778–1856) performed a crude limited vitrectomy for angle closure [[glaucoma]].<ref name="Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases2">{{cite journal |vauthors = Leffler CT, Schwartz SG, Wainsztein RD, Pflugrath A, Peterson E |title = Ophthalmology in North America: Early Stories (1491–1801) |journal = Ophthalmology and Eye Diseases |volume = 9 |pages = 1179172117721902 |year = 2017 |pmid = 28804247 |pmc = 5533269 |doi = 10.1177/1179172117721902 |url = }}</ref>