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William E. Benson

Researcher at Wills Eye Institute

Publications -  82
Citations -  4268

William E. Benson is an academic researcher from Wills Eye Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Retinal detachment & Vitrectomy. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 82 publications receiving 4076 citations. Previous affiliations of William E. Benson include Thomas Jefferson University.

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Aspirin Effects on Mortality and Morbidity in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus: Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study Report 14

Aaron Kassoff, +147 more
- 09 Sep 1992 - 
TL;DR: The early treatment diabetic retinopathy study (ETDRS) as mentioned in this paper was a randomized clinical trial of aspirin vs placebo, which was sponsored by the National Eye Institute (NIEI).
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Inadvertent globe perforation during retrobulbar and peribulbar anesthesia. Patient characteristics, surgical management, and visual outcome.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report a series of 20 eyes from 20 patients in whom inadvertent perforation of the globe occurred during local anesthesia for ocular surgery, and 15 (75%) of the 20 eyes were successfully repaired, and, in five eyes (25%), the final visual acuity was 20/70 or better.
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Punctate inner choroidopathy.

TL;DR: Ten moderately myopic women had blurred vision, light flashes, or paracentral scotomas associated with small yellow-white lesions of the inner choroid and pigment epithelium that healed into atrophic scars and became progressively more pigmented with time.
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Basic fibroblast growth factor levels in the vitreous of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

TL;DR: The study documents increased levels of basic fibroblast growth factor in vitreous specimens from patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, particularly those with active proliferative Retinopathy.
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Surgical management of macular holes: a report by the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

TL;DR: Level I evidence shows that surgery improves the vision in a majority of patients with stage 3 and stage 4 holes and there is no strong evidence that adjuvant therapy used at the time of surgery results in improved surgical outcomes.