TY - JOUR
T1 - The architecture of the choriocapillaris at the posterior pole
AU - Torczynski, Elise
AU - Tso, Mark O.M.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Ophthalmic Pathology Division, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and the Department of Ophthalmology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. This study was supported in part by National Institutes of Health research grant EY-00790, by training grant ΕΥ-00032, from the National Eye Institute, and by a fellowship from the Heed Ophthalmic Foundation.
PY - 1976/4
Y1 - 1976/4
N2 - The afferent and efferent vessels as well as the choriocapillaris in the human posterior pole, studied in flat preparations, paraffin sections, and Epon sections, formed relatively discrete units of organization which we called lobules. A lobule is a segment of the choriocapillaris supplied centrally by a precapillary arteriole and demarcated peripherally by a ring of postcapillary venules. Observations on the choroidal phase of fundus fluorescein angiography indicated that blood entering a lobule did not intermingle with blood from adjoining lobules. The choriocapillaris in the posterior pole of the human eye, with its supplying and draining vessels, appeared as a mosaic of adjoining lobules that function independently.
AB - The afferent and efferent vessels as well as the choriocapillaris in the human posterior pole, studied in flat preparations, paraffin sections, and Epon sections, formed relatively discrete units of organization which we called lobules. A lobule is a segment of the choriocapillaris supplied centrally by a precapillary arteriole and demarcated peripherally by a ring of postcapillary venules. Observations on the choroidal phase of fundus fluorescein angiography indicated that blood entering a lobule did not intermingle with blood from adjoining lobules. The choriocapillaris in the posterior pole of the human eye, with its supplying and draining vessels, appeared as a mosaic of adjoining lobules that function independently.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9394(76)90298-1
DO - 10.1016/0002-9394(76)90298-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 1266921
AN - SCOPUS:0017290733
SN - 0002-9394
VL - 81
SP - 428
EP - 440
JO - American journal of ophthalmology
JF - American journal of ophthalmology
IS - 4
ER -