Pseudo Retinal Break

• 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 11, 2013.
• Reviewed by Chayal Patel

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reddish areas, pseudo retinal break, enclosed ora bay

Description

This large reddish area in the nasal periphery of this left eye is actually an enclosed ora bay. For other examples of this, see slide pair 5 and 6. This developmental abnormality could easily be confused with a retinal break. A very unusual feature of this photograph is the presence of a tiny true retinal break at the far right end of the enclosed ora bay and lying just to the left of the yellow zone in the middle of the photograph

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