Enclosed Ora Bay On The Temporal Side

• By Norman Byer
  From Dr. Norman E. Byer’s “The Peripheral Retina in Profile”
• Uploaded on Nov 9, 2012.
• Last modified by Suber S. Huang, MD, MBA, FASRS on Feb 9, 2013.
• Reviewed by Chayal Patel

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enclosed ora bay, pars plana epithelium, developmental abnormality, temporal retina, smooth sloping borders, grayish pigmented base, horizontal nasal meridian

Description

This is a developmental abnormality in a 59-year-old man. It is an enclosed ora bay on the temporal side, an isolated island of normal pars plana epithelium. It is important not to confuse this entity with a retinal break. It has smooth, sloping borders not a sharp, thin, visible retinal edge as a retinal break would have. The border looks exactly like that of the ora serrata, and the grayish pigmented base has the same appearance as the normal pars plana.

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