Teaching eye pathology
Cornea from a young adult with gradually worsening vision This low power image shows a full thickness cornea with a little artefactual creasing. Remember, the 5 layers are: epithelium, Bowman's layer, stroma, Descemet's membrane and endothelium. The stroma is perhaps a little thinned towards the right of centre, and there is subtle scarring in the… Continue reading Eye pathology case 15
Enucleation specimen The patient is an elderly male. The reason for surgery is a choroidal melanoma, but I'm not going to show that in this post: there's something else of note. This low power image shows the anterior segment (cornea, iris, ciliary body and lens). The feature of interest is that instead of having a… Continue reading Eye pathology case 14
Incidental finding in an enucleation specimen I took a little break from pathology last week and shared a fiction reading post from my other website. Back to some interesting (I hope!) cases now. This low power image is centred on the ciliary body and adjacent sclera. It also shows the limbus (on the right) with… Continue reading Eye pathology case 13
Conjunctival mapping biopsies from an elderly patient This conjunctival specimen is folded, which is why we have epithelium on the top and bottom of the image. The epithelium is disorganised and has lost its normal maturation pattern. That is, for much of the specimen we don't have a neat basal row of small cells with… Continue reading Eye pathology case 12
