Images of Ophthalmology
Popular culture has always viewed eyes as things of beauty. But there’s more to the eye than the color of your irides. Advances in imaging technology have enabled us to see far more than could ever have been imagined. And on closer inspection, they’re still beautiful.
Iris Vascular Malformation. John McCormick, Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Glasgow, UK.
Anterior Segment
Supported by
Anterior Uveitis
By John McCormick, photographed with the Haag-Streit BX 900 Slit Lamp.
Ophthalmic Diagnostic & Clinical Imaging, Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland.
Missed Appointments
Matt Poe is a certified ophthalmic assistant working towards certification in retinal angiography. He runs the ophthalmic imaging site www.ophthalmicphotography.info.
This patient was first diagnosed with a choroidal melanocytoma. The patient did not return to the clinic for three years until one month when he lost vision on and off several times a day. The flat melanocytoma had progressed to a large, mushroom-shaped tumor. The tumor’s location meant that radiotherapy was contraindicated. Enucleation was performed, and the tumor was confirmed to be uveal melanoma.
Magnification by oil
Amra Nadarevic Vodencarevic, Resident Ophthalmologist, University Clinic Center Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bubble of silicon in the anterior chamber.
A Spider’s Web?
Angela Chappell is an ophthalmic photographer at Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, South Australia. Images copyright: Flinders Centre of Ophthalmology.
Fibrin web formation with pigment deposition on a decentered posterior chamber lens implant.
Dangerous Liaisons
Helena Prior Filipe is a consultant ophthalmologist at the Instituto Dr Gama Pinto, Lisbon, Portugal
Simblepharon in a Lyell syndrome case: lower eyelid and inferior bulbar conjunctival adhesion.
The Shard
Tarun Arora, senior resident, the Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Anterior segment OCT of glass penetrating the anterior chamber.
Dust Clouds From Above
Carrie A. Cooke is an ophthalmic photographer with the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, Medical Arts and Research Center, Department of Ophthalmology.
This patient presented to our clinic after a routine exam with a shopping center optometrist. The patient explained that the growth had been present since he was an infant and had changed very little throughout his life. The diagnosis was a non-malignant congenital anomaly of the iris and will be monitored every 6 months.
Images of the Posterior Segment
Incredible Images
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