EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
Andrew Doan, MD, PhD, University of Iowa

Category: Retina
Diagnosis: retinitis pigmentosa (RP)

Image Comments:

1) right eye with waxy disc pallor, arteriolar attenuation, and bone-spicule like pigmentation of the peripheral retina (distributed along the microvascular pattern of the retina). Patient with autosomal recessive RP.
2) left eye
3) Goldmann visual fields denoting ring scotomas
4) female with x-linked RP in the carrier state. Unilateral, patchy pigmentation due to Lyonization/x-inactivation.

 

 

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