Search results (3 results)

  • Black Sunburst

    Nov 25 2012 by Mallika Goyal, MD

    Left eye of a 19-year-old boy with sickle cell disease shows large salmon patch (decolourised subretinal heme and intraretinal heme) 3 days after pars plana vitrectomy for vitreous haemorrhage.

    Photographer: Mallika Goyal, MD, Apollo Health City, Hyderabad, India

    Condition/keywords: sickle cell

  • Black Sunburst in Proliferative Sickle Cell Retinopathy

    Jul 25 2023 by Kamal Kishore, MD, MBBS

    A 17-year-old male with a black sunburst lesion at superonasal periphery.

    Photographer: Jessi Wright

    Imaging device: Zeiss Clarus

    Condition/keywords: Black Sunburst, sickle cell retinopathy

  • Slide 9-35

    Feb 26 2019 by Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology

    "Black sunburst" sign of sickle-cell retinopathy. These are localized le­sions characterized by hypertrophy, hyperplasia, and migration of the retinal pigment epithelium into the retina in a perivascular location. This latter has given the lesion its spiculate ophthalmoscopic and gross appearance.

    Condition/keywords: hyperplasia, hypertrophy, sickle cell, spiculate ophthalmoscopic