Comparison of the Effectiveness of Pars Plana Vitrectomy with and without Internal Limiting Membrane Peeling for Idiopathic Retinal Membrane Removal: A Meta-Analysis

Table 5

Recurrence rate.

Study	Recurrence rate
	IERM peeling	IERM+ILM peeling
Kim et al., 2005 [19]	0	0	—
Kwok et al., 2005 [25]	3/15	2/20	—
Liu and Mori, 2005 [24]	—	—	—
Lee and Kim, 2010 [18]	0	0	—
Pournaras et al., 2011 [17]	—	—	—
Chang et al., 2013 [23]	—	—	—
Oh et al., 2013 [16]	0	0	—
Ahn et al., 2014 [22]	14/69	3/40	0.06

IERM: idiopathic epiretinal membrane; ILM: internal limiting membrane.
The timespan of recurrence rate: Kim et al., 2005 [19]: 6–27 months; Kwok et al., 2005 [25]: 18 months; Oh et al., 2013 [16]: 12 months; Lee and Kim, 2010 [18]: 5–44 months; Ahn et al., 2014 [22]: 12 months.