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Association between Eye Shape and Myopic Traction Maculopathy in High Myopia
The prevalence of myopia is rapidly increasing worldwide.1 High myopia, a severe form of myopia, is strongly associated with various ocular complications, among which foveal retinoschisis, foveal retinal detachment (RD), and macular hole (MH) are partly caused by vitreous traction, and these 3 conditions are known as myopic traction maculopathy (MTM).2 Recently, we developed a quantitative analysis method to measure the local curvature of Bruch's membrane using optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans.
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