| # | Searches | Results |
| 1 | vitreoretinal surgery/or exp vitrectomy/or retina surgery/or radial optic neurotomy/or exp retinal detachment surgery/or retina macula translocation/or retinotomy/ | 34,383 |
| 2 | retina/or exp retina/su [Surgery] | 74,554 |
| 3 | retina tear/ | 5106 |
| 4 | epiretinal membrane/ | 6598 |
| 5 | (((vitreoretinal or vitreo retinal or retina or macula *) adj3 (surg * or operat * or prosedure * or repair or translocation * or incision *)) or retinotom * or vitrectom * or (vitreous adj2 resection *)).ti,ab,kf. | 26,967 |
| 6 | ((retina * or macula *) adj3 (perforation * or hole * or tear * or break * or rupture)).ti,ab,kf. | 12,012 |
| 7 | ((epiretinal or epimacular or preretninal) adj2 membrane *).ti,ab,kf. | 5272 |
| 8 | or/1–7 | 119,990 |
| 9 | exp optical coherence tomography/or exp optical coherence tomography device/ | 84,548 |
| 10 | ((optical coherence adj3 tomograph*) or oct or ioct or sdoct).ti,ab,kf. | 97,459 |
| 11 | or/9–10 | 118,870 |
| 12 | perioperative period/or intraoperative period/ | 104,295 |
| 13 | (perop * or per-op * or intraop * or intra-op *).ti,ab,kf. | 264,038 |
| 14 | or/12–13 | 329,780 |
| 15 | and/8, 11, 14 | 740 |
| 16 | limit 15 to (conference abstract or conference paper or “conference review” or editorial or letter or note) | 183 |
| 17 | 15 not 16 | 557 |