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General Pathology of the Retina: Correlation of the Ophthalmoscopic Appearance with Tissue Morphology

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The concepts and terminology used in general pathology can be applied to both clinical ophthalmology and ophthalmic pathology. In a routine office practice one examines ocular diseases in vivo with magnifications similar to those used by the pathologist when examining microscopic sections. Clinical ophthalmoscopy can therefore be considered a form of microscopy of living tissues. It is the purpose of this chapter to correlate the ophthalmoscopic appearance of lesions with the specific tissue changes that lead to this appearance. The retina is susceptible to virtually all types of injury and disease that fall into the realm of general pathology (see Chapter 11).

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Naumann, G.O.H., Lüllwitz, W. (1986). General Pathology of the Retina: Correlation of the Ophthalmoscopic Appearance with Tissue Morphology. In: Pathology of the Eye. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8525-7_12

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