Ref (type)	Population	Outcome, Interventions	Results and statistical analysis	Effect size	Favours
Adverse effects
RCT	198 eyes with phakic (108 eyes), pseudophakic (70 eyes), or aphakic (20 eyes) rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), involving retinal breaks within 1 disc diameter of each other located in the superior retina, without severe proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR)	Proportion of eyes with at least 1 dioptre of myopia 65/95 (68%) eyes with scleral buckling 3/103 (3%) eyes with pneumatic retinopexy	P = 0.0001	Effect size not calculated	Pneumatic retinopexy
RCT	198 eyes with phakic (108 eyes), pseudophakic (70 eyes), or aphakic (20 eyes) RRD, involving retinal breaks within 1 disc diameter of each other located in the superior retina, without severe PVR	Persistent diplopia 3/95 (3%) eyes with scleral buckling 0/103 (0%) eyes with pneumatic retinopexy	Significance not assessed
RCT	198 eyes with phakic (108 eyes), pseudophakic (70 eyes), or aphakic (20 eyes) RRD, involving retinal breaks within 1 disc diameter of each other located in the superior retina, without severe PVR	Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) 5/95 (5%) eyes with scleral buckling 3/103 (3%) eyes with pneumatic retinopexy	Significance not assessed
RCT	198 eyes with phakic (108 eyes), pseudophakic (70 eyes), or aphakic (20 eyes) RRD, involving retinal breaks within 1 disc diameter of each other located in the superior retina, without severe PVR	Macular pucker requiring surgery 2/95 (2%) eyes with scleral buckling 0/103 (0%) eyes with pneumatic retinopexy	Significance not assessed
RCT	198 eyes with phakic (108 eyes), pseudophakic (70 eyes), or aphakic (20 eyes) RRD, involving retinal breaks within 1 disc diameter of each other located in the superior retina, without severe PVR	Macular subretinal haemorrhage 2/95 (2%) eyes with scleral buckling 0/103 (0%) eyes with pneumatic retinopexy	Significance not assessed
RCT	108 phakic eyes Subgroup analysis	Progressive lens opacities 24 months 21/44 (47%) eyes with scleral buckling 10/53 (19%) eyes with pneumatic retinopexy	Significance not assessed
RCT	108 phakic eyes Subgroup analysis	Proportion of people requiring cataract surgery 8/44 (18%) eyes with scleral buckling 2/53 (4%) eyes with pneumatic retinopexy	Significance not assessed	Effect size not calculated	Scleral buckling
RCT	20 people with RRD and single retinal break or small group of breaks in phakic or pseudophakic eyes without severe PVR	Proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) with RRD 0/10 (0%) eyes with scleral buckling 2/10 (20%) eyes with pneumatic retinopexy	Significance not assessed