AIM:To describe the applications,clinical features and effect of the divesting of retinal inner limiting membrane in secondary epiretinal membrane in macular. ·METHODS:Retrospective series of consecutive but noncomparative cases from 2000 to 2006 was reviewed. There were 32 patients 32 eyes underwent vitreoretinal surgery(par plana vitrectomy)for secondary macular epiretinal membrane.26 cases were male and 6 case were female;age ranged from 13 to 69 yeas old ,and the average was 41.5 years old. Course of illness was from 3 to 69 months,and the average was 21.6 months.6 cases lasted for more than one year. The records of 5 cases 5 eyes were diagnosed as intraocular foreign body associated with siderosis bulbi in macular.During the operation,divesting of retinal inner limiting membrane was performed after peeling epiretinal membrane. A part of patient were targeted with TA. Air intraocular tamponaded for about a week. The follow-up was 6-38 months. ·RESULTS:Postoperative visual acuity of suffering eyes ranged from 0.05 to 0.7. There was significant difference between the preoperative vision and the postoperative vision(fisher’s exact test,P<0.05),and there was also significant difference between the foveal thickness of preoperative and postoperative (Friedman test,P<0.05).Serious complication of tearing retinal inner limiting membrane was not discovered. ·CONCLUSION:The application of tearing retinal inner limiting membrane is used in vitreoretinal surgery more and more. It not only could relieve the traction of retinal inner limiting membrane to retina and clivus of fovea but also could get rid of the virose substance adhered firmly to the surface of macular,improve the macular’s metabolization,accelerate the furbish of the function of macular.