• Small breaks anterior to the equator, particularly in multiple quadrants
  • Anterior small retinal breaks under staphylomatous sclera
  • Suspected, undetectable, minute, anterior breaks, as in pseudophakia
  • Retinal dialysis with incipient retinal detachment
  • Relief of vitreoretinal traction
  • Extensive, dangerous, circumferential lattice degeneration in undetached quadrants
Table 1: Relative indications for encirclage in retinal detachment repair.