Electron Microscopic Features of Retinal Detachment.

Yoo, Jin Hyung

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1974;15(3):225-227.
Published online March 1, 1974.

Electron Microscopic Features of Retinal Detachment.

Jin Hyung Yoo

Research Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyushu University Medical School Fukuoka, Japan.

안과임상학보 : 열공성 (裂孔性) 망막박리 ; 망막박리의 전자현미경소견

류진형 ( Jin Hyung Yoo )

Abstract

Electron microscopic characteristics of primary (rhegmatogenous) retinal separation are described. They namely are degeneration of photoreceptor outer segment, disappearance of lamellar inclusion bodies and melanin granules from apical process both in retinal pigment epithelium, and vacuole formation of middle, inner layers of retina. The pathogenesis of retinal separation is discussed briefly in view of abnormality in finer structural relationship between regions vitreous with retina and retina with choroid.