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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
- retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) hypertrophy, ora serrata
- Description
- Diffuse peripheral RPE hypertrophy. There is a band of pigmentation just posterior to the ora serrata (upper left) where the RPE is darker and contains larger, spherical pigment granules(lower right). The junction (arrow) between normal (left) and hypertrophic (right) pigment epithelium is illustrated in the lower left view. A few areas of paving-stone degeneration are present at the equator (upper left).