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Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This 38-year-old man was found to have this asymptomatic tractional tear in which the vitreoretinal traction had completely avulsed this tiny fragment of retina as a free operculum. Note how the examination and also the photography of this tiny lesion is made easier by scleral indentation.

Condition/keywords: asymptomatic, free operculum, scleral indentation, vitreoretinal traction

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

This interesting double elevated white lesion in a 33-year-old woman is well seen in sharp relief on the crest of the scleral indentation. This exact nature of this lesion is not known.

Condition/keywords: scleral indentation, white retinal lesion

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This photograph and the next are two views of a very interesting elevated lesion in a 45-year-old man. This photograph shows the immense value of closely scrutinizing the profile of the indented area. Note that in the middle of the slide there is a sudden break in the continuity of the dark convex shadow that lies just behind the crest of the scleral indentation. If the elevated tissue is "filmy" or "wispy" or filamentous as in this case, it raises a strong suspicion that a retinal break is present just behind it.

Condition/keywords: elevated retinal lesion, elevated tissue, retinal break, scleral indentation

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This horseshoe tear was the cause of the detachment in this 54-year-old man. The orange area on the right half of the slide represents the area of scleral indentation. Please note that most of the tear lies over the indented area and appears orange. However, the extreme left side of the tear is brownish black in color because it is exactly superimposed over the dark shadow that always lies just beyond the indented area. The ability of scleral indentation to produce this color change combined with a sharp demarcation between the blackish area and the yellowish edge of intact retina is a pathognomonic sign of a full thickness retinal break.

Condition/keywords: scleral indentation

Jan 26 2017 by Manish Nagpal, MD, FRCS (UK), FASRS

Intraoperative photo while doing vitectomy near a horseshoe tear to clear the adherent vitreous enhanced by peripheral scleral indentation while using chandelier light.

Photographer: Manish Nagpal

Imaging device: Still captured from a 3 chip HD camera on microscope

Condition/keywords: cutter, scleral indentation, vitrectomy, vitreous

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is lattice degeneration in a 10-year-old boy showing an almost pure snailtrack feature with only a hint of a reddish crater in the center. It has not changed over 10 years. The photograph was taken with scleral indentation.

Condition/keywords: lattice degeneration, reddish crater, scleral indentation, snail track

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This lattice lesion in a 36-year-old woman has remained unchanged over a period of 13 years. It shows a moderate snailtrack feature with discrete yellow dots visible on the surface of the lesion and especially along the posterior border. One of these can be well seen just below the lesion superimposed over the dark shadow of the scleral indentation. The exact nature of these yellow dots is still not entirely clear.

Condition/keywords: lattice degeneration, moderate snail track, scleral indentation, yellow dots

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This lattice lesion in a 30- year-old woman also shows combined features with a reddish crater above and a parallel snailtrack appearance just below it. Please note especially another interesting feature. From the left end of the lesion, there is a faint thin yellow line slanting down toward the right just below the shadow of the scleral indentation. This line identifies the dome of the pocket of liquified vitreous which is present over every lesion of lattice degeneration.

Condition/keywords: lattice degeneration, lattice lesion, liquefied vitreous, reddish crater, scleral indentation, snail track

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is the same lesion as seen in the previous case seen now with scleral indentation. Here you can see directly into the subretinal space through the two retinal holes. The holes appear dark because the shadow of the scleral indentation lies directly beneath them.

Condition/keywords: lattice degeneration, retinal hole, scleral indentation

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This lattice lesion in a 44-year-old woman shows an interesting tuft arising from the edge of the lesion and seen well against the background of the shadow of the indentation. It is caused by glial proliferation into the vitreous condensation at the edge of the lesion. Around the borders of each lattice lesion there is an invariable attachment of condensed vitreous. It is this vitreoretinal attachment that comprises the chief danger of lattice lesions where it may lead to acute retinal tears and retinal detachment at the time of posterior vitreous detachment.

Condition/keywords: glial proliferation, lattice degeneration, scleral indentation, vitreoretinal attachment, vitreous condensation, white retinal tuft

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This lattice lesion in a 44-year-old man shows an atrophic retinal hole surrounded by discrete yellowish and pigmented areas. These have been caused by secondary pigment migration and proliferation in the retinal pigment epithelium. There is a small doughnut like elevation of the retina between the edge of the hole and the line of pigment. The lesion and the hole have remained exactly the same for seven years.

Condition/keywords: atrophic retinal hole, elevated retina, lattice degeneration, lattice lesion, proliferation of retinal pigment epithelium, scleral indentation

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is the same lesion as in the previous photograph. With the scleral indentation placed more posterior, we now can see that the fold ends over a small collection of subretinal fluid and that there is a very tiny retinal hole just below the posterior end of the retinal fold.

Condition/keywords: peripheral cystoid degeneration, retinal fold, retinal hole, scleral indentation, subretinal fluid

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is an example of parallel lattice lesions. The anterior one is faintly seen and not in focus. The posterior lesion shows a prominent whitish meshwork with modeled reddish areas which sometimes may be mistaken for retinal holes.

Condition/keywords: lattice degeneration, lattice lesion, parallel lattice lesions, reddish areas, scleral indentation

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is the same case as the previous photograph. With scleral indentation slightly more posterior, the flap is seen to be associated with a large retinal tear. This is a tractional tear and it is possible that in this case the cryotherapy itself may have increased the vitreoretinal traction at this site and in this way led to this new tear. The age of the tear is unknown because it was asymptomatic, and even though the eye is aphakic the tear has not caused a clinical retinal detachment.

Condition/keywords: retinal flap, scleral indentation, tractional retinal tear, vitreoretinal traction

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This 53-year-old man has retinoschisis involving the upper temporal quadrant but with no visible yellow dots or white lines to make it obvious. However, with scleral indentation you can see a large convex area showing the so-called white with pressure phenomenon. This area corresponds exactly to the area being indented and therefore must arise either from the outer layer of the retina or from some structure deep to it. White with pressure is an interesting optical phenomenon of uncertain origin but of no definite diagnostic or prognostic significance.

Condition/keywords: retinoschisis, scleral indentation, white with pressure

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is a different view of the previous case taken with scleral indentation. There is a very large outer layer hole on the left side of the photograph with prominent yellow rolled posterior borders and a small yellow nubbin in the middle, which is probably the remnant of a former bridge between two smaller holes. This case has not been treated and has not progressed during four year’s observation. In fact, it has gotten measurably smaller in extent.

Condition/keywords: intact inner layer, outer layer hole, retinoschisis, rolled edges of retina, scleral indentation

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

Combined retinoschisis detachment, so-called schisis detachment, in a 47-year-old woman. The large outer layer hole in the center has a posterior yellow border which represents the position of the outer layer. Please observe superior to the hole the dark convexity of the scleral indentation. Just below the hole at the middle of the slide and going to the left the yellow zone comes to lie right against the inner layer and a fluid filled cavity lies deep to the outer layer. At this point, therefore, there is a true neurosensory detachment of the retina. On the right side of the hole, the yellow line slants up and to the right and lies close to the pigment epithelium. On the right side of the photograph, the original schisis cavity can be seen separating the yellow line of the outer layer above from the inner retinal layer below. The mechanism of this detachment is that some of the fluid from the schisis cavity passes through the outer layer hole and detaches the outer layer. This lesion has not been treated and has remained exactly the same for 13 years. A similar symmetrical "schisis-detachment" is present in the fellow eye.

Condition/keywords: neurosensory detachment of retina, outer layer hole, pigment epithelium, retinoschisis, schisis detachment, scleral indentation

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is the same lesion as seen in the previous photograph but with the scleral indentation placed more anterior. In this view, one can look through both the inner and outer layer holes at the same time directly into the subretinal space. This is only a subclinical detachment which did not progress. True clinical progressive retinal detachments as a complication of retinoschisis probably do not occur in more than 1 of every 1,000 cases of senile retinoschisis.

Condition/keywords: inner layer holes, outer layer hole, retinoschisis, scleral indentation, subclinical detachment, subretinal space

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

The next three photographs are of the same lesion in a 26-year-old man and demonstrate the value of scleral indentation. This view without indentation shows only a tiny pigmented and atrophic spot in the fundus.

Condition/keywords: atrophic spot, pigmented lesion, scleral indentation

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is the same lesion as in the previous photograph. As scleral indentation begins, we see that the former tiny spot is actually the center of a larger whiter zone of uncertain etiology.

Condition/keywords: atrophic spot, scleral indentation, white retinal lesion

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is the same lesion as in the two previous photographs. With the scleral indentation placed more anterior, this white area is made to lie on the crest of the bulge where it can now be studied in profile. It projects above the retina and has sloping margins. The exact nature of this lesion is not known. This illustrates how the use of scleral indentation with indirect ophthalmoscopy can markedly change the appearance of retinal abnormalities and can bring to light many details not otherwise visible.

Condition/keywords: elevated retinal lesion, scleral indentation, white retinal lesion

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

The next two photographs are of the same lesion in a 43-year-old man. This view shows a small whitish lesion that appears to be attached to the retina at the crest of the scleral indentation.

Condition/keywords: elevated retinal lesion, scleral indentation, white retinal lesion

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

This is the same lesion as in the previous photograph. With the scleral indentation placed slightly more anterior, it is now apparent that the lesion lies almost entirely in the peripheral vitreous with only a tiny counterpart on the surface of the retina. Without scleral indentation, the exact location of this lesion would not have been known.

Condition/keywords: scleral indentation, vitreous lesion, white retinal lesion

Nov 9 2012 by Norman Byer

On the crest of this indentation, one can see a small fragment of residual vitreous blood lying close to the retinal surface. The center is becoming typically white as the blood is becoming depigmented.

Condition/keywords: depigmented vitreous blood, scleral indentation, vitreous blood