It is believed that there are four main factors, which determine iris colour: the pigment granules within the posterior pigment epithelium, the concentration of pigment within the iris stromal ...

The histologic features were those of amelanotic lentigo maligna melanoma. A wide excision was recommended. According to a review of the literature, typical patients are elderly women (ratio 3:1 ...

Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is one of the most important vision-threatening complications secondary to pathological myopia (PM). In the last 20 years, there have been rapid advances in the ...

Melanoma is a type of skin cancer. Risk factors include overexposure to the sun, having fair skin, and a family history of melanoma, among others. Receiving an early diagnosis and getting prompt ...

Abstract: The Choroidal Eye Oximeter is an electro-optical instrument that non-invasively measures the oxygen saturation of choroidal blood in the back of the human eye by a spectrophotometric method.

Background/aim: There are two theories on the pathogenesis of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV): variants in choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) and inner choroidal vessel abnormalities. On ...

Purpose To analyse retinal and choroidal microvasculature features in healthy pregnant women using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). Methods PubMed, Embase, Ovid, Web of Science and ...

Choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) is a common vision-threatening complication of myopia and pathological myopia. Despite significant advances in understanding the epidemiology, pathogenesis and ...

Dag Einar Lysebo, specialist in ophthalmology and senior consultant. The author has completed the ICMJE form and declares no conflicts of interest. The picture shows a divided melanocytic naevus along ...

4 For example, flat and superficial amelanotic/hypomelanotic melanoma and basal cell ... appear along the tips of hairless skin or normal skin papilla. 11 Red Clark nevus, a melanocytic lesion, ...

Blue nevus is a benign melanocytic lesion whose most frequent variants are dendritic (common) blue nevus and cellular blue nevus. Atypical cellular blue nevus presents an intermediate histopathology ...