Peripheral Retinal Degenerations without Risk of Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment and Management

Peripheral retinal degenerations are lesions that usually appear incidentally during routine ophthalmologic examination when the peripheral fundus is scanned, and usually do not require treatment. Though skipping these non-progressing lesions do not often leads to problems both legally and medically in terms of both the patient and the physician, the possibility of needing follow-up or lesions that may require prophylactic treatment should lead us to be cautious in this regard. In this review, peripheral retinal degenerations without risk of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and management of these lesions are summarized.