EyeRounds Online Atlas of Ophthalmology

Contributor:
William Charles Caccamise Sr,MD, Retired Clinical Asst Prof of Ophthal. U.of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry

Category: Pathology
Diagnosis: scleral hyaline plaque OD

Image Comments:

This is a beautiful example of a scleral hyaline plaque. This plaque lies in the palpebral fissure immediately anterior to the medial rectus muscle insertion.The striations in the photo are those of the muscle tendon itself as it inserts into the sclera. The grayish cast to the scleral hyaline plaque is due to the visibilty of the blue uveal tissue through the thinned-out sclera in the scleral hyaline plaque.

scleral hyaline plaque in a second patient - again, it is anterior to the inserion of the medial restus muscle in the OD.

 

 

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