Exclusion criteria
| Exclusion criteria | Number of patients |
| Retinal tear or hole without RD | 173 |
| Recurrent RD that required more than one surgery | 100 |
| Unclear time of onset of central vision loss | 73 |
| Other types of RD (tractional or exudative) | 67 |
| Trauma-related RD | 47 |
| Less than 1 month follow-up | 46 |
| Posterior vitreous detachment without RD | 38 |
| Other diseases (advanced AMD, BRVO, CRVO, dense ERM, dense vitreous haemorrhage, diabetic macular oedema, ischaemic optic neuropathy, subretinal haemorrhage, vitreomacular traction) | 34 |
| Treatment performed at outside hospitals | 23 |
| Lens pathology (dense cataract, posterior capsular opacity, dislocated IOL) | 15 |
| Retinoschisis | 12 |
| Endophthalmitis | 8 |
| Amblyopia | 8 |
| Non-communicative patients | 8 |
| End-stage glaucoma | 7 |
| Macular hole | 7 |
| Chronic RD greater than 6 weeks | 6 |
| Other congenital conditions (coloboma, Stickler syndrome, microphthalmia) | 5 |
| Corneal diseases (keratoconus, central corneal ulcer) | 4 |
| Choroidal detachment and haemorrhage | 2 |
| Posterior uveitis | 2 |
| Total | 685 |
AMD, age-related macular degeneration; BRVO, branch retinal vein occlusion; CRVO, central retinal vein occlusion; ERM, epiretinal membrane; IOL, intraocular lens; RD, retinal detachment.