Episcleral Microaneurysms

Episcleral microaneurysms.

Retinal microaneurysms in leukaemia.

THE purpose of this report is to describe the presence of microaneurysms in the retinae of patients who died with leukaemia. Although this type of lesion is most frequently observed in association with diabetes mellitis, it has, during recent years, been described clinically and/or histologically in association with a diverse variety of apparently unrelated entities. In a few instances the lesi...

Delivery from episcleral exoplants.

PURPOSE To assess the impact of an episcleral exoplant on transscleral delivery. METHODS New Zealand White rabbits were given a periocular injection of sodium fluorescein (fluorescein, 376 Da) or an episcleral exoplant loaded with fluorescein. Two types of exoplants were tested: (1) a rigid polyethylene device, impermeable on one side and open to the sclera on the other, that contained compre...

Subconjunctival and episcleral lipid deposits.

Biomicroscopical examination of the bulbar conjunctiva and anterior episclera of 1000 randomly selected outpatients showed the presence of multiple discrete lipid globules in 30 per cent. The lipid deposits were asymptomatic. Their prevalence was age-related, while their distribution and composition were consistent with origin from the conjunctival blood vessels.

Episcleral traumatic conjunctival inclusion cyst.

A hugh episcleral traumatic conjunctival inclusion cyst enveloping almost the whole eye, which appeared in the left phthisical eye of a young woman who sustained a perforating ocular injury a few years before enucleation, is described.