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By Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology
1980 - Uploaded on Feb 26, 2019.
- Last modified by Caroline Bozell on Mar 8, 2019.
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- Appears in
- Unit 09 Pathology of the Retina
- Condition/keywords
- choriocapillaris, retinal pigment epithelium, Bruch's membrane
- Description
- Paving-stone degeneration. There is loss of the choriocapillaris, RPE, and outer retinal layers. The thinned inner nuclear layer of the retina rests against Bruch's membrane, and there is no reparative proliferation. Adjacent RPE is hypertrophic.