Surgical management of a live intravitreal nematode
Bibliographic record
Abstract
PURPOSE: To describe a novel surgical technique for the removal of a live intravitreal nematode. OBSERVATIONS: We describe the surgical management of a 35-year-old man with a live intravitreal nematode in his left eye. A 23-gauge pars plana limited core vitrectomy was performed to release the nematode from the surrounding vitreous strands. After creating a peritomy, a 20-gauge full thickness sclerotomy was created with a microvitreoretinal blade. The tip of a 20-gauge angiocath needle was cut obliquely and inserted through the sclerotomy. The external portion of the needle was attached to the viscous fluid extraction tubing for the Constellation vitrectomy machine (Alcon). Gentle aspiration pulled the nematode into the angiocath. The nematode was transferred to a syringe for parasitologic evaluation. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: The novel surgical technique described allows for aspiration of an intravitreal nematode in a controlled fashion. This technique can be used to manage this rare, but visually significant condition.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".