Table 1.

Demographics and visual and anatomic outcomes comparing scleral tunnels versus scleral sutures in fixation of scleral buckle during retinal detachment surgery for both scleral buckle surgery and pars plana vitrectomy combined with scleral buckle

	Scleral tunnels ( n = 302)	Suture ( n = 846)	P -value
Age	57.7 $\pm$ 13.6	55.9 $\pm$ 14.3	0.04 ${}^{*}$
Sex (Female)	117 (38.8%)	314 (37.1%)	0.63
Preoperative logMAR (Snellen)	1.05 $\pm$ 1.06 (20/224)	1.03 $\pm$ 1.04 (20/214)	0.85
Postoperative logMAR (Snellen)	0.45 $\pm$ 0.55 (20/56)	0.46 $\pm$ 0.59 (20/58)	0.57
P -value	$<$ 0.0001 ${}^{*}$	$<$ 0.0001 ${}^{*}$
Single surgery success rate	87.3%	88.6%	0.60
Postoperative strabismus	3 (1.0%)	1 (0.1%)	0.02 ${}^{*}$
Eyes with encircling band only	278 (92.1%)	816 (96.5%)	0.01 ${}^{*}{}^{+}$
Follow-up (days)	368 $\pm$ 185	363 $\pm$ 187%	0.99
logMAR, logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution ${}^{*}$ Statistically significant value ${}^{+}$ Fischer's Exact test