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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 10, 2013.
- Reviewed by Chayal Patel
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- Miscellaneous
- Condition/keywords
- vitreous condensation, vitreoretinal attachment, glial proliferation, lattice degeneration, scleral indentation, white retinal tuft
- Description
- 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.
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