The possibilities of treatment of chorioideal neovascular membrane (CNV) in age-related macular degeneration are very limited. Conservative treatment has no effect, laser coagulation is accepted nowadays as the method of choice only in a selected group of patients and its results are more than disappointing. Surgical extraction of subretinal neovascular membranes opens wider opportunities for improvement of optic functions in indicated patients, in the majority it makes their stabilization possible. The authors present a group of their own 20 patients where extraction of CNV was performed. They describe the technique of extraction, indications and results.

        Key words: chorioideal neovascular membrane (CNV), pars plana vitrectomy,