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13-15 Trisomy
AIDS; cytomegaly; complete destruction
AIDS; necrotic foci; mycobacterium
Aberrant Bowman's basement membrane
Abetalipoproteinemia
Abnormal corneal mitoses, chemotherapy
Abnormal pigmentation from epinephrine
Abnormalities of the pigment epithelium
Abortive development of the optic nerve; hydrocephalus
Absence of diabetic vacuolization of ciliary pigment epithelium
Accessory lacrimal gland
Accessory membrane; calcified corneal plaque
Acquired melanosis with malignant change (cancerous melanosis)
Acute disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
Acute glaucoma secondary to vein occlusion
Acute myelogenous leukemia
Adenocarcinoma metastasized to the choroid
Adenoid tissue
Adhesion between iris and cornea
Adnexo-type basal cell carcinoma
Age-related disciform macular degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration; doubling pigment epithelium
Aging changes in choroidal vessels
Agonal central serous retinopathy
Agonal detachment of the pigment epithelium
Agonal detachment of the pigment epithelium with pseudodrusen
Albinism
Allergic vasculitis: Wegener's Granulomatosis
Amyloid
Amyloidosis
Anencephaly
Angiomatosis of the retina
Angle recession from blunt trauma
Aniridia
Anomalies: double eye in one orbit
Anterior chamber
Anterior chamber angle closed by peripheral anterior synechia
Anterior chamber, Schlemm's canal
Anterior cortical and capsular cataract
Anterior cortical and mature cataract secondary to iridocyclitis
Anterior lens
Anterior polar cataract
Anterior synechia
Anterior synechia and membrane in the angle
Anterior synechia closing off the anterior chamber angle
Arcus senilis
Arcus senilis with deposition of fat
Argyrosis oculi
Asteroid hyalitis
Ataxia telangiectasia; capillaries in conjunctiva and skin
Ataxia-telangiectasia
Atheroma of the central retinal artery, optic nerve
Atheromatous ulcer
Atopic dermatitis
Attenuation of the internal limiting membrane over the macula
Bacterial colonies in choroidal capillaries
Balloon cells in the lens
Band keratopathy
Band keratopathy in a phthisical eye
Basal cell carcinoma
Basal cell carcinoma that metastasized as a squamous cell carcinoma
Basal cell carcinoma; good demonstration lid margin relation to tarsus
Basal cell, mixed cell cancer
Basement membrane being formed by the ciliary epithelium
Basophilia, scleral degeneration
Basophilic scleral degeneration
Behçet's; acantholysis
Behçet's; intraepithelial diplococci
Benign choroidal melanoma
Benign melanoma
Bergmeister's papilla
Bitot spot
Bone formation
Bone formation in the lens
Bone formation; arrangement
Bone plaque
Bony choristoma
Bowen's carcinoma
Bruch's membrane, aberrant formation
Brushfield spot
Brushfield spots
Bullous keratopathy
Bullous keratopathy with calcification and pigment
Bullous keratopathy, Bowman's membrane
Bullous keratopathy, bacteria, early
Bullous keratopathy, cyst
Bullous keratopathy, posterior surface membrane
Buphthalmos from secondary glaucoma
Calcareous cataract
Calcific keratic precipitates
Calcification and rupture of Bruch's membrane
Calcification of Bruch's membrane; Paget's disease
Calcification of sclera
Calcified drusen; ?serum
Calcified lens secondary to injury
Calcified plaque of the sclera
Cancerous melanoma
Carcinoma in situ of the Bowen type
Cataract extraction, bilateral, five and ten days post-operative
Cavernous atrophy, optic nerve
Cavernous hemangioma
Cavernous optic atrophy
Cells in angle; hypermature cataract
Central retinal artery occlusion, fresh
Central retinal vein occlusion
Central retinal vein occlusion, neovascular glaucoma
Central retinal vein occlusion; platelet transfusion
Chalazion (fibrous stage)
Chorioretinal degeneration
Chorioretinal degeneration with incipient bone formation
Chorioretinal degeneration, pavement degeneration
Choroid: post mortem blood vessels
Choroidal artery atheroma
Choroidal artery occlusive vascular disease
Choroidal degeneration
Choroidal hemangioma
Choroidal hemorrhage
Choroidal melanoma
Choroidal melanoma spindle B cell type
Choroidal melanoma eroding through the retina with hemorrhage

Histopathology descriptions from: Choroidal melanoma; pigmentation and necrosis

Choroidal melanoma; pigmentation and necrosis
Choroidal nevus
Choroidal sclerosis: thickened veins
Choroidal vascular occlusive disease, TTP
Choroidal wrinkles: papilledema
Chronic conjunctival inflammation
Chronic myelocytic leukemia
Ciliary body atrophy
Ciliary body clear cysts
Ciliary body cyst
Ciliary body detachment due to phthisis
Ciliary body edema and hemorrhage
Ciliary body fascicular melanoma
Ciliary body malignant melanocytoma; non-pigmented epithelium
Ciliary body melanoma or leiomyosarcoma with extrabulbar extension
Ciliary body melanoma presenting at the limbus
Ciliary body melanoma with extension into the angle, epithelioid cytology
Ciliary body melanoma, epithelioid and spindle cell cytology
Ciliary body with reticulum stain
Ciliary body: pars plana cysts
Ciliary processes in aging eye
Closure outflow from anterior chamber
Coat's disease
Cobblestone degeneration and retinoschisis
Collar-button melanoma
Coloboma
Coloboma of the iris with occlusion of the angle
Coloboma, gliosis
Completely cupped optic nerve secondary to glaucoma
Complication from cataract extraction
Congenital abnormalities of retina and optic nerve
Congenital abnormality endothelium
Congenital abnormality iris vessels
Congenital absence of retinal vessels
Congenital cataract ?Lowe's syndrome
Congenital cloudy cornea, bilateral
Congenital defective eye
Congenital glaucoma, buphthalmos
Congenital pupil membrane; anterior hyaloid
Congenital retinal folds with rosettes

Histopathology descriptions from: Conjunctival epithelial cyst

Conjunctival epithelial cyst
Conjunctival dermoid and ear tag
Conjunctival foreign body; sheep fly larva
Conjunctival inflammation
Conjunctival mast cells
Cornea: Schwalbe's line
Corneal abscess
Corneal and conjunctival epithelium, general pathology
Corneal calcification with hypercalcemia
Corneal contact lens with fungal growth
Corneal fungal ulcer
Corneal injury
Corneal transplant, aspergillus infection
Corneal ulcer
Corneal ulcer with perforation
Corneal vascularization
Crinkling of the retina at the macula
Cryptococcus; anti metabolic treatment
Cylindroma; caruncle
Cystic degeneration; ciliary epithelium
Cystinosis
Cystinosis (electron microscopy)
Cystinosis; whole eye
Cystoid degeneration of the retina with staphyloma
Cystoid macular degeneration
Cystoid maculopathy
Cysts in outer layer of retina, secondary to detachment
Cysts of the ciliary body (pars plana)
Cysts of the ciliary processes
Cytoid body
Deep cupping of the optic nerve head
Deep cupping of the optic nerve; glaucoma
Degeneration of ganglion cells in region of the fovea
Degeneration of retinal cone receptors: paraneoplastic syndrome
Degeneration of the papillo-macular bundle, optic nerve
Degeneration: Vogt-Spielmeyer syndrome
Degeneration: retinal peripheral cystoid degeneration
Degenerations, not vascular: cystoid maculopathy
Degenerative changes and hemorrhage; keratosis over pingueculum
Degenerative changes, calcification, retrocorneal membrane

Histopathology descriptions from: Degenerative changes: Bullous keratopathy

Degenerative changes: Bullous keratopathy
Degenerative changes: Lattice dystrophy
Degenerative changes: amyloid deposit in cornea
Degenerative changes: attenuated endothelium
Degenerative changes: calcification pinguecula; becoming exteriorized
Degenerative changes: congenital corneal clouding
Degenerative changes: corneal dystrophy of the nodular type
Degenerative changes: corneal macular dystrophy
Degenerative changes: corneal stroma and Descemet's membrane
Degenerative changes: diffuse corneal haze
Degenerative changes: endothelial dystrophy
Degenerative changes: epithelial plaque
Degenerative changes: pinguecula
Degenerative changes: pinguecula; actinic changes
Degenerative changes: pinguecula; teased
Degenerative changes: pterygium
Degenerative changes: sub-epithelial membrane
Degenerative changes: yellow globules in superficial stroma
Degenerative disease, probably xerosis bacilli
Degenerative: Lipid keratitis in old interstitial keratitis
Densely pigmented melanoma
Deposition of silver granules in Descemet's membrane
Dermoid
Dermoid of the cornea
Descemet's membrane
Descemet's membrane extending onto iris with endothelial cells
Descemet's membrane extending onto the iris
Descemet's membrane in corneal stroma post cataract surgery
Descemet's membrane rupture in keratoconus
Descemet: dissolution
Descemetocele
Detached ciliary body; phthisis
Detachment of the ciliary body secondary to phthisis
Developing fetal retinal vessels
Diabetes mellitus, juvenile onset
Diabetic proliferans
Diabetic retinitis proliferans
Diabetic retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy, advanced
Diabetic vacuolization of iris pigment epithelium

Histopathology descriptions from: Dilation of choriocapillaris; hypotony

Dilation of choriocapillaris; hypotony
Dilator muscle of the iris
Disciform keratitis, secondary to herpes simplex
Disciform macular degeneration
Dislocated lens
Disseminated chorioretinopathy, ?congenital syphilis
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)
Double iris epithelium in infant eye
Drusen
Drusen of the meninges
Drusen of the optic nerve
Drusen of the pars plana of the ciliary body
Drusen, optic nerve head
Drusen, pathogenic (drusification of Bruch's membrane)
Duplicated Descemet's membrane and fibrous posterior membrane
Dyskeratosis
Dyskeratotic epithelioma
Dysplasia or carcinoma
Early cytomegalic retinopathy; AIDS
Early hemangioma
Edema of the iris with beginning anterior synechia on one side
Elastic tissue stain of choroidal artery, Descemet's, Bruch's membranes
Embolus of the central retinal artery
Embolus, central retinal artery, behind the lamina cribrosa
Endophthalmitis secondary to cataract surgery
Endothelial dystrophy; aniridia, rupture of Descemet's membrane
Endothelial occlusion, diabetes
Endothelial-spindle cells; fetus
Ensheathing retinal vein
Eosinophilia, vasculitis
Epidermalization over pingueculum
Epidermoid carcinoma, grade 2
Episcleral malignant lymphoma
Epithelial cyst
Epithelial cyst adherent to cornea
Epithelial downgrowth onto iris
Epithelial downgrowth post cataract surgery
Epithelioid melanoma
Epithelioma of Malherbe
Epithelium, corneal; normal physiology

Histopathology descriptions from: Equatorial scleral staphyloma

Equatorial scleral staphyloma
Exfoliated material
Exposure keratopathy
Expulsive choroidal hemorrhage
Expulsive hemorrhage
Fabry's disease
Fetal angle
Fibrin-bacterial clots in the choriocapillaris
Fibrosarcoma, highly malignant
Fistula from glaucoma surgery
Fixed retinal folds; fusion of basement membrane
Flattening of the ciliary processes
Focal absence of the outer retina in the paramacular region
Focal loss of choroidal vessels
Focal loss of pigment epithelium
Focal necrotizing retinopathy; Hodgkin's disease
Folding of internal limiting membrane in the macula area
Forceps delivery, with posterior corneal surface rupture
Foreign body in ciliary body
Foreign body inclusions from dynamite blast
Foreign body reaction
Foreign body reaction, suture
Foreign-body giant cell formation
Freckle
Fresh cataract section
Fungal keratitis
Furrow dystrophy
General pathology: atrophy of Meibomian gland; radiation
General pathology: cystinosis
General pathology: degranulation conjunctival mast cells
Giant drusen; phthisis
Glaucoma cupping of the optic nerve
Glaucoma secondary to pigment dispersion or exfoliation
Gliosis of the retina, secondary to congenital glaucoma
Gliotic and degenerating retina
Granular cell myoblastoma
Granuloma
Granuloma formation
Granulomatous changes in a lymph node suggestive of sarcoid
Granulomatous inflammation

Histopathology descriptions from: Granulomatous reaction to cat-gut used to repair a wound

Granulomatous reaction to cat-gut used to repair a wound
Guttate dystrophy
Guttate keratopathy
Hassall-Henle warts on Descemet's membrane
Hemangioma
Hemangioma, Sturge-Weber
Hematogenous staining of cornea; blood in anterior chamber
Hemorrhagic retinopathy
Herpes simplex keratitis
Herpes simplex, inflammatory disease
Herpes simplex: corneal transplant
Heterochromia iridis
Histiocytes, cancer
Hyaline nodules of the choroidal arteries (moderate)
Hyaline proliferation of Bruch's membrane on disc margin
Hyalinization of the choroidal arteries; diabetic
Hyalinized anterior cortical cataract
Hyper lipidosis Type II b
Hypermature cataract
Hypermature cataract with bladder cells
Hypermature cataract; macrophages
Hypermature lens
Hypoplasia of the iris dilator muscle
Hypoplastic iris dilator muscle
Incipient limbal girdle
Inclusion bodies in conjunctival cells
Inclusion cyst
Inclusion cysts
Increase in conjunctival goblet cells
Inflammation, uvea
Inflammation: AIDS
Inflammatory cells in anterior chamber from exposure keratopathy
Inflammatory disease
Inflammatory disease lids: granuloma annular
Inflammatory disease of lid, necrotizing granuloma
Inflammatory disease of lids, tuberculosis
Inflammatory disease of the lid: incipient chalazion
Inflammatory disease of the lids: Wegener's vasculitis
Inflammatory disease of the orbit: Wegener's vasculitis
Inflammatory disease, conjunctiva

Histopathology descriptions from: Inflammatory disease, lid; sarcoid

Inflammatory disease, lid; sarcoid
Inflammatory disease: Pemphigus; plasma cells
Inflammatory disease: allergic granulomatosis
Inflammatory disease: cat scratch fever
Inflammatory disease: conjunctiva
Inflammatory disease: granulation tissue
Inflammatory disease: granuloma
Inflammatory disease: maxilla
Inflammatory disease: tuberculosis
Inflammatory disease; herpes simplex corneal perforation
Inflammatory reaction
Inflammatory reaction to sebaceous material ?
Inflammatory reaction with interstitial infiltrate caused by ?herpes simplex
Inflammatory reaction, secondary to renal failure
Inflammatory scleral lesion
Injuries and wound healing of the cornea
Injury with non-dystrophic epithelial changes
Internal limiting membrane of the retina and the vitreous face
Internal limiting membrane over a retinal artery
Interstitial Keratitis, fat deposition in cornea
Intraepithelial cyst and basement membrane formation
Intraepithelial keratinization; dystrophy
Intraepithelial nevus
Intraocular foreign body; phagocytes, siderosis
Intrascleral nerve loop
Involuted keratosis
Iridectomy without evidence of fibrosis or healing
Irido-corneal adhesion, developmental
Irido-corneal adhesions
Iridocyclitis
Iridodialysis, traumatic
Iris cyst
Iris epithelium looking like melanoma
Iris inclusion cyst
Iris leiomyoma
Iris melanoma with extension out of the eye
Iris necrosis and ischemia
Iris necrosis secondary to glaucoma
Iris necrotic with loss of pigment
Iris neovascularization

Histopathology descriptions from: Iris pigment epithelial necrosis

Iris pigment epithelial necrosis
Iris pigment epithelium vacuolization, TTP
Iris prolapse covered by epithelium
Iris prolapse through cataract surgical wound
Iris, sarcoid nodules
Iron-containing cells in anterior chamber
Juvenile xanthogranuloma in an adult
Juvenile xanthomatosis
Kayser-Fleischer ring
Keratin cyst
Keratinization, exposure keratitis, secondary to a congenital lack of tears
Keratinizing papilloma
Keratization of epithelium: vernal conjunctivitis
Keratoacanthoma