Symptomatic intravitreal silicone oil droplets are a rare complication of intravitreal injections. Symptoms are generally transient and not clinically significant and hence the benefits of treating potentially blinding eye diseases in this fashion appear to outweigh the limited risk of the rare, temporary floaters. The current series may be related to a batch or batches of syringes.
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