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At present, there are about 600 million people with myopia in China, and about 30 million with high myopia, and the number is still growing. Among them, it is important to note that more than 40% of high myopia will progress to pathologic myopia (PM), the incidence of which is increasing year by year and tends to be younger. PM is usually defined as a refractive error of greater than −6.0 diopters or an axial length greater than 26.5 mm, combined with characteristic degenerative changes in ocular fundus lesions in the posterior pole. The typical fundus lesions include tessellated fundus, lacquer cracks, diffuse or lamellar atrophy, choroidal neovascularization, macular atrophy, and posterior scleral staphyloma.
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Yuan, M., Chen, Y. (2023). Pathologic Myopia. In: Chen, Y., Peng, X. (eds) Atlas of Swept Source OCT and OCT Angiography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4391-1_5
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