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OPHTHALMIC IMAGES
Year : 2018  |  Volume : 66  |  Issue : 2  |  Page : 300

“Comet-tail” lesions of pseudoxanthoma elasticum


Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Date of Web Publication30-Jan-2018

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Dr. Vinod Kumar
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_718_17

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Kumar V. “Comet-tail” lesions of pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Indian J Ophthalmol 2018;66:300

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Kumar V. “Comet-tail” lesions of pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2018 [cited 2024 Mar 29];66:300. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2018/66/2/300/224100



Comet-tail lesions are small, round, white bodies seen commonly in the inferior midperiphery of the retina [Figure 1]a. These are frequently associated with a tail, which always points toward the optic disc. On red-free imaging, comet-tail lesion appears as a bright dot with a less bright tail [Figure 1]b. Optical coherence tomography reveals them as hyporeflective spaces covered by hyperreflective margin, which overlie retinal pigment epithelium [Figure 1]c. Comet-tail lesions are considered to be pathognomonic of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PE) and may appear earlier than other changes of PE such as angioid streaks and Peau d'orange.[1],[2]
Figure 1: Color (a), red-free (b) and optical coherence tomography imaging (c) of comet-tail lesions

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Gass JD. “Comet” lesion: An ocular sign of pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Retina 2003;23:729-30.  Back to cited text no. 1
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Gliem M, Zaeytijd JD, Finger RP, Holz FG, Leroy BP, Charbel Issa P, et al. An update on the ocular phenotype in patients with Pseudoxanthoma elasticum. Front Genet 2013;4:14.  Back to cited text no. 2
    


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