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By Gustavo Uriel Fonseca Aguirre
Hospital de la Luz - Uploaded on Aug 20, 2025.
- Last modified by Joshua Friedman on Aug 21, 2025.
- Rating
- Appears in
- Miscellaneous
- Condition/keywords
- asteroid hyalosis, choroidal melanoma
- Photographer
- Gustavo U. Fonseca Aguirre, Hospital Conde de Valenciana, Ciudad de México
- Imaging device
- Scanning laser ophthalmoscope
- Description
- This ultra-widefield fundus photograph demonstrates a peripheral inferior choroidal melanoma with overlying asteroid hyalosis. The lesion shows characteristic pigmentation and irregular borders, while the asteroid bodies appear as numerous refractile opacities distributed throughout the vitreous cavity.