Keywords
Epicapsular stars; Lenticular pigmentation; Vasculosa lentis
Abstract
An asymptomatic 36-year-old woman presented to our hospital for a routine ophthalmic examination. Slit lamp biomicroscopy revealed in her right eye tiny pigmented opacities on the anterior lens capsule.
Citation
Rubalcava-Soberanis ML and Sánchez-Ramos JA. Epicapsular Stars. SM Opthalmol J. 2018; 4(1): 1012
Clinical image
An asymptomatic 36-year-old woman presented to our hospital for a routine ophthalmic examination. Slit lamp biomicroscopy revealed in her right eye tiny pigmented opacities on the anterior lens capsule. Epicapsular stars represents the incomplete involution of the tunica vasculosa lentis, a vascular network that surrounds the lens during embryogenesis. Usually they are not visually significant and may occur unilaterally or billateraly and vary in number. Epicapsular stars are sometimes amorphous and occur primarily within the pupillary area as a small brown pigmentary masses.
Figure 1: Slit lamp microscopic photography of the right eye showed epicapsular stars. They consist of a tiny brown, star-shaped, pigmented deposites on the central anterior lens capsule.
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