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Br J Ophthalmol 2003;87:1431-1432 doi:10.1136/bjo.87.11.1431-a
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Trypan blue stains the epiretinal membrane but not the internal limiting membrane

  1. E B Rodrigues,
  2. C H Meyer,
  3. J C Schmidt,
  4. P Kroll
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
  1. Correspondence to: E B Rodrigues MD; Department of Ophthalmology, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany; edubrodriguessyahoo.com.br
  • Accepted 4 April 2003

We read with great interest the paper by Li et al about staining of the internal limiting membrane (ILM) and epiretinal membrane (ERM) with trypan blue (TB).1 We would like to comment on one aspect of this paper, when the authors claimed that a good staining of both the ILM and the ERM was achieved with TB. We disagree that ILM is stained by TB, and propose that …

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