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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
- retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) hypertrophy, lesion, choroidal infarction
- Description
- Peripheral punched-out lesion from choroidal infarction. The lesion is surrounded by hypertrophic RPE which gives the lesion a dark halo. There is loss of the choriocapillaris, RPE, and outer retinal layers with no reparative proliferation.