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By Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology
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- Last modified by Caroline Bozell on Mar 8, 2019.
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- Appears in
- Unit 09 Pathology of the Retina
- Condition/keywords
- perivasculitis
- Description
- Radial paravascular rarefaction. This eye with moderate background diabetic retinopathy shows an area of retinal thinning along a major retinal vessel in the midperiphery nasally. This oval area has a reticular appearance (upper views). Histologic section through the area shows the cystic spaces within the nerve fiber layer and an intact overlying vitreous (lower view).