Fig. 1

Intraoperative fundus pictures and optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans of a lamellar macular hole (LMH) with epiretinal proliferation. a Intraoperative OCT scan centered on the LMH after central vitrectomy and blue dye injection showing a partial retinal defect and a proliferative tissue. b Epiretinal proliferation appearing as a yellowish pigmented, thick and fluffy tissue. c This proliferation appeared strongly attached to the retina and seemed connected to the bottom of the hole, while it was centripetally peeled off towards the edges of the retinal defect. d The internal limiting membrane was removed after dual membrane blue dye staining. e Excess of proliferation was gently trimmed using the cutter probe. f At the end of the procedure, intraoperative OCT was used to assess the absence of full-thickness macular hole