[Careful use of radial optic neurotomy for the treatment of retinal central vein occlusion].

Radial optic neurotomy (RON) is an attractive and controversy procedure. Commenting on some disputed issues, the authors think that it seems inappropriate to negate the therapeutic effects of RON completely. However, it should be careful to select the proper patients for performing the RON. The indiscriminate extension of the indications of RON should be avoided.