Hamoudi H, et al. - The consequence of combined phacoemulsification-vitrectomy and sequential surgery were gauged in this trial for idiopathic epiretinal membrane (ERM) on refractive error (RE) and macular morphology. It was illustrated that surgery for idiopathic ERM in phakic eyes with either phaco-vitrectomy or sequential surgery were found to be equal approaches with respect to functional- (RE, best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA)) and anatomical outcomes (cystoid macular oedema (CME), central subfield macular thickness (CSMT)). When starting with cataract surgery, 17% of the cases possibly did not require subsequent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV).