Rare and Unusual Cases
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VICTOR BERGAMASCO, MBBS
The Globe
This image shows keratoglobus and a total fibrotic cataract in a 45-year-old woman with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome who underwent uneventful extracapsular cataract extraction followed a few months later by limbus-to-limbus penetrating keratoplasty.
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MARCELO MESQUITA MAIA, MD
Confetti
This is a photograph of an interesting and unusual type of cortical cataract.
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ALEXANDER MARTÍNEZ RUA, MD
Necrotizing Fasciitis
The image in this photograph is of necrotizing fasciitis in a patient with acute lymphoid leukemia.
Interesting and Artistic Images
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MANAS NATH, MBBS, DO,
FAEH, FAICO
Ring of Pearls
This slit-lamp retroillumination image shows proliferation of Elschnig pearls at the margin of an Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomy opening. The posterior capsulotomy was performed more than 2 years prior to presentation.
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CELSO DE SOUZA DIAS JÚNIOR, MD
An Encounter With Semicircles
This image of fluorescein semicircles in a nonglaucomatous eye was taken during Goldmann applanation tonometry.
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ADNAN BERKAY KISAKÜREK, MD
Conjunctival Squamous Papilloma
A 45-year-old man presented with a mass on the inferior eyelid of his right eye. He reported experiencing foreign body sensation in the eye as well as irritation and itching.
Surgical Complications
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CLAUDIO TRINDADE, MD, PHD
Neovascularization After Corneal Ring Segments
This image was captured with a slit lamp using open-slit illumination and diffuse background illumination; a 35-year-old patient with keratoconus presented with a complex web of neovascularization around an intrastromal corneal ring segment 7 years after ring segment implantation. White deposits along the intrastromal tunnel caused visual and cosmetic problems.
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ROBERTO JULE, MD
Misplaced
An image of a cataract fragment in the posterior pole after posterior capsular rupture during cataract surgery.
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RICARDO STOCK, MD
Artisan Pigmentation
A photograph of iris pigment attached to an Artisan Phakic IOL (Ophtec) after uneventful surgery.
Ocular Trauma
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CAROLINA MENDOZA, MD
A Prolapsed Self-Sealing Iris
This image of the right eye of a 29-year-old woman with a history of penetrating corneal laceration shows a corneal and scleral laceration with prolapsed iris sealing the corneal injury, which kept the anterior chamber formed.
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KUNAL ASHOK MANDLIK, MBBS, MS, FAEH(CORNEA)
Phacocoele
This is an image of the eye of a patient with a history of trauma who presented with a lens extrusion in the subconjunctival space through a scleral tear.
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LEKSEJ MEDIC, MD
Traumatic Cataract With Total Iridodyalisis
An image of a patient with a traumatic cataract with subtotal iridodialysis caused by a penetrating injury of the cornea and sclera.
Slit-Lamp Images
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GRAND PRIZE WINNER | JOCELYN RIVERA, MD
Galaxy
This image shows a dense cerulean cataract in a 28-year-old woman with high myopia who presented with a 1-year history of progressive visual loss in her left eye.
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MICHAEL RIZEN, MD
Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
This is a photo of a patient who received iris implants in South America and presented with uveitis. Removal of the implants was recommended to prevent long-term complications of glaucoma and corneal decompensation.
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GABRIEL CASTILHO SANDOVAL BARBOSA, MD
Epicapsular Stars
This is a photograph of a remnant of the tunica vasculosa lentis that appears as star-shaped brown pigments in the anterior lens capsule.