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Jul 5 2025 by Gustavo Uriel Fonseca Aguirre

This B-mode longitudinal ultrasound scan demonstrates a retinal dialysis, appearing as a linear discontinuity at the ora serrata with associated vitreous base avulsion. The scan reveals mild subretinal fluid extending from the dialysis site with macular involvement.

Photographer: Gustavo U. Fonseca Aguirre, Hospital Conde de Valenciana, Ciudad de México

Condition/keywords: retinal dialysis

Mar 13 2025 by Fabricio Dolores

This color wide-field clinical image depicts the right eye of a female patient who experienced a sudden loss of vision one month earlier. She was initially diagnosed with a vitreous hemorrhage and managed with conservative treatment. Upon presentation to our institute one month later, a superior rhegmatogenous retinal detachment was identified, extending across the 12 o’clock meridian. This was accompanied by an inferior vitreous hemorrhage and a solitary superior retinal lesion located at M11 in the superior triangle of the ora serrata, in alignment with Lincoff's second law.

Photographer: Fabricio Dolores-Villanueva, MD

Imaging device: Nidek Mirante

Condition/keywords: Retinal Detachment

Jan 16 2025 by yuan duo

A 5-year-old girl, born full-term with no history of systemic disease, presented with poor vision since early childhood and underwent fundus examination. Anterior segments of both eyes showed no significant abnormalities. Fundus examination revealed retinal folds extending from the optic disc to the temporal peripheral retina, with blood vessels coursing through the folds (A, B). Avascular zones were observed in the peripheral retina, and the ora serrata’s boundaries were clearly visible, displaying dentate processes and bays (C, D). Retinal pigmentation was evident. Genetic testing confirmed the final diagnosis of bilateral Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy (FEVR).

Condition/keywords: Retinal Ora Serrata

Jan 16 2025 by yuan duo

A 5-year-old girl, born full-term with no history of systemic disease, presented with poor vision since early childhood and underwent fundus examination. Anterior segments of both eyes showed no significant abnormalities. Fundus examination revealed retinal folds extending from the optic disc to the temporal peripheral retina, with blood vessels coursing through the folds (A, B). Avascular zones were observed in the peripheral retina, and the ora serrata’s boundaries were clearly visible, displaying dentate processes and bays (C, D). Retinal pigmentation was evident. Genetic testing confirmed the final diagnosis of bilateral Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy (FEVR).

Condition/keywords: Retinal Ora Serrata

Jan 16 2025 by yuan duo

A 5-year-old girl, born full-term with no history of systemic disease, presented with poor vision since early childhood and underwent fundus examination. Anterior segments of both eyes showed no significant abnormalities. Fundus examination revealed retinal folds extending from the optic disc to the temporal peripheral retina, with blood vessels coursing through the folds (A, B). Avascular zones were observed in the peripheral retina, and the ora serrata’s boundaries were clearly visible, displaying dentate processes and bays (C, D). Retinal pigmentation was evident. Genetic testing confirmed the final diagnosis of bilateral Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy (FEVR).

Condition/keywords: Retinal Ora Serrata

Jan 16 2025 by yuan duo

A 5-year-old girl, born full-term with no history of systemic disease, presented with poor vision since early childhood and underwent fundus examination. Anterior segments of both eyes showed no significant abnormalities. Fundus examination revealed retinal folds extending from the optic disc to the temporal peripheral retina, with blood vessels coursing through the folds (A, B). Avascular zones were observed in the peripheral retina, and the ora serrata’s boundaries were clearly visible, displaying dentate processes and bays (C, D). Retinal pigmentation was evident. Genetic testing confirmed the final diagnosis of bilateral Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathy (FEVR).

Condition/keywords: Retinal Ora Serrata

Aug 26 2024 by Nassim Alejandro Abreu Arbaje, MD

Ultra-wide field OCT angiography of a 39 year-old healthy male. The photo attempts to explore retinal vasculature up to the ora serrata.

Photographer: Johel Arrieta, TowardPi

Imaging device: TowardPi BMizar 400khz

Condition/keywords: OCT Angiography, OCTA, ultra-wide field imaging

Jan 23 2024 by SHISHIR VERGHESE, MS, FVRS, FAICO (Retina)

Intraoperative surgical video of a 65 year old female patient with advanced proliferative diabetic retinopathy showing neovascularization at the ora serrata for which a cryopexy is being done to cause regression. This video highlights a previously undocumented grape like Neovascularization at the ora serrata in this patient with advanced proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Condition/keywords: Advanced Proliferative diabetic retinopathy, Cryopexy, neovascularization

Sep 1 2020 by J. Sebag, MD, FACS, FRCOphth, FARVO

Dark-field slit microscopy was performed on fresh, unfixed, post-mortem human eyes that had undergone dissection to peel off the sclera, choroid, and retina. The vitreous body remains attached to the anterior segment which is seen below, while the posterior pole is above in these images. Left: specimen was tilted to reveal the posterior aspect of the lens (L) and the fibers of the vitreous base (arrow) splayed out to insert anterior and posterior to the ora serrata; Right: Anterior Loop of the vitreous base (see text). [From Sebag J: The Vitreous - Structure, Function, and Pathobiology. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989, pp. 41 & 42; images © Springer Nature, reprinted with permission]

Condition/keywords: vitreous

May 18 2020 by McGill University Health Centre

This enucleation specimen shows: “snowballs” or localized inflammatory foci (arrow); and a “snow bank” or inflammation at the ora serrata, the anterior-most limit of the retina. These are caused by a reaction to the subjacent uveitis (arrowhead).

Condition/keywords: intermediate uveitis

May 18 2020 by McGill University Health Centre

The cornea is transparent and thin. The lens is cataractous. The ora Serrata (arrow) demarcates a transition zone in the uveal tract between the pars plana of the ciliary body and the retina.

Condition/keywords: cataract, enucleation

Mar 8 2019 by Abdulaziz A. Alshamrani, MD

A 15-year-old female with congenital glaucoma complaining of acute diminution of vision after a blunt trauma.

Condition/keywords: crystalline lens, dropped nucleus, ora serrata

Mar 4 2019 by Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology

Traumatic retinal dialysis in a 15-year-old male who died 2 weeks follow­ing a motorcycle accident. Upper left shows dialysis of the retina at the ora serrata. Upper right shows hemorrhage In the retina of the fellow eye. Sections through dialysis (lower views) show the detached vitreous base with a small tag of adherent retinal tissue (arrow). (E.P. No. 32955)

Condition/keywords: hemorrhage, ora serrata, retinal dialysis

Feb 26 2019 by Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology

Hyperplasia of RPE at ora serrata. Fine-stippled, dark pigmentation at the ora serrata is due to pigment epithelial hyperplasia with migration internally (arrow). Histopathologic sections (lower views) show the strands of hyperplastic epithelium in­ternal to the retina and pars plana.

Condition/keywords: ora serrata, retinal pigment epithelium

Feb 26 2019 by Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology

Diffuse peripheral RPE hypertrophy. There is a band of pigmentation just posterior to the ora serrata (upper left) where the RPE is darker and contains larger, spherical pigment granules(lower right). The junction (arrow) between normal (left) and hypertrophic (right) pigment epithelium is illustrated in the lower left view. A few areas of paving-stone degeneration are present at the equator (upper left).

Condition/keywords: ora serrata, retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) hypertrophy

Feb 26 2019 by Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology

Typical peripheral cystoid degeneration (PCD) just posterior to the ora serrata, and reticular peripheral cystoid degeneration located posterior to the typical PCD. Section of reticular peripheral cystoid degeneration showing cystic spaces in the nerve fiber layer (upper right). Lower view shows junction of typical PCD (left} with reticular PCD (right). (Courtesy of Robert Y Foos, M.D. )

Condition/keywords: peripheral cystoid degeneration

Feb 19 2019 by Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology

Tubules and cords of proliferated retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) under a detached retina, at the ora serrata. The surrounding pink collagen and base­ment membrane is also made by the RPE.

Condition/keywords: ora serrata, retinal pigment epithelium

Jan 29 2018 by Shani Pillar

During a pars plana vitrectomy for fixation of a dislocated IOL, this finding of pars plana cysts was seen, while performing indentation. Pars plana cysts are not uncommon, but rarely visualized so clearly, given their extremely peripheral location.

Photographer: Dr. Shani Pillar, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel

Imaging device: Intraoperative microscope

Condition/keywords: cyst of the pars plana, ora serrata, peripheral fundus lesion

Dec 10 2012 by Yale L. Fisher, MD

There is a posterior vitreous face separation with remaining attachment to a retinal flap tear. Movement of the tear is visible during voluntary motion of the patient's eye. There is strong reflectivity from the flap tear (yellow arrow) and moderate reflectivity from the vitreous face (green arrow). The peripheral retinal tear is seen in this sagittal nasal cut near the medial rectus muscle insertion, which localizes the tear to the ora serrata around the 3 o'clock position.

Condition/keywords: video

Dec 10 2012 by Yale L. Fisher, MD

Dr. Yale Fisher presents a sagittal view of a complete posterior detachment demonstrated by the thin preretinal reflection (yellow arrow). Scleral depression (green arrow) at the ora serrata demonstrates the ability to register anatomical position on ultrasound using a scleral depressor.

Condition/keywords: video

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is the eye of a 53-year-old woman with a small elevated cystic area of the peripheral retina at the posterior end of a meridional fold.

Condition/keywords: meridional fold, ora serrata, peripheral retina, small elevated cystic area

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is a cyst of the pars plana located just anterior to the ora serrata in the lower temporal quadrant. It illustrates how far anterior one may visualize the fundus with indirect ophthalmoscopy and scleral indentation. Pars plana cysts are common lesions of no particular clinical significance.

Condition/keywords: cyst of the pars plana, lower temporal quadrant, ora serrata, scleral indentation

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

The next two photographs are of the same lesion in a 28-year-old woman. This view shows a sloping retinal mound with a radial retinal fold in the center. This is not a typical meridional fold for it stops short of the ora serrata and there is no dentate process. The upper temporal ora serrata and pars plana are well shown and peripheral cystoid degeneration is present posterior to the ora.

Condition/keywords: ora serrata, pars plana, peripheral cystoid degeneration, radial retinal fold, sloping retinal mound

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This glistening yellow globular lesion is a so-called pearl of the ora serrata in a 45-year-old man. Notice location in the tooth of the ora, which is a characteristic of this lesion. Histologically pearls are drusen-like structures which form on the inner side of Bruch’s membrane beneath the pigment epithelium. They are seen in about 20% of eyes and are often bilaterally symmetrical. They have no clinical significance but are valuable as landmarks.

Condition/keywords: Bruch's membrane, drusen-like, ora serrata

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is the same case as seen in the previous photograph but is a different view with the scleral indentation moved more anterior. The retinoschisis is seen to be very peripheral coming at least grossly right up to the ora serrata. Please notice how clear a view one can get of the ora serrata and pars plana using indirect ophthalmoscopy with scleral indentation.

Condition/keywords: ora serrata, retinoschisis, scleral indentation