This site uses tracking information. Visit our privacy policy. Click to agree to this policy and not see this again.

Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Conjunctival lymphangiectasis

Conjunctival lymphangiectasis

Category(ies): Cornea, External Disease
Contributor: Christopher A Kirkpatrick, MD
Photographer: Cindy Montague, CRA

The patient was a 57-year-old man with vision loss in the right eye (OD) greater than left eye (OS) in the setting of a craniopharyngioma, which was resected 16 years prior. His visual acuity had been no light perception OD and 20/20 OS since the procedure.
The below pictures show this condition in a young, asymptomatic patient. Included is an anterior segment OCT centered over the area of interest.