Sclera Flashcards
What is demonstrated below?
The normal sclera, the lamina fusca, ciliary arteries, and nerves.
What is described in this image?
An emissary canal through the sclera with Axenfeld nerve loop.
What does the image describe?
Sectoral nodular anterior scleritis.
What is this condition? And what feature is demonstrated?
Diffuse posterior scleritis and thickening of the posterior sclera.
What is this condition? And what does scleral biopsy illustrated?
Necrotizing granulomatous scleritis and palisading arrangement of histiocytes and multinucleated giant cells.
What does the image describe?
An eye with posterior staphyloma as a sequela of scleritis.
What are the arrows indicate?
Calcific plaques and deposits in the sclera anterior to the rectus muscle insertion.
What is this condition? And what do the arrows indicate?
Scleral staphylomas and scleral thinning.
What type of neoplasm is this? And what is revealed in the photomicrograph?
Fibrous histiocytoma of the corneoscleral limbus and spindle-shaped fibroblasts, epithelioid and lipid-laden histiocytes, and scattered lymphocytes.
What is this condition? And what are the arrows and arrowheads?
Nodular fasciitis. And activated spindled fibroblasts and prominent capillary network.
