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By Lancaster Course in Ophthalmology
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- Appears in
- Unit 11 Diseases of the Optic Nerve
- Condition/keywords
- optic atrophy, pial septa
- Description
- Primary or descending optic atrophy. Horizontal section of the optic disk ( x 16). Note the increase in thickness of the pial septa in the nerve, the loss of ganglion cell and nerve fiber layers in the adjacent retina, and the loss of the optic cup.