title: Equatorial lens pigmentation, myopia, and retinal detachment.
abstract: Five myopic male retinal detachment patients had pigmentation of the lens equator that mildly obscured the view of the ora serrata. It may be related to a prepigmentary glaucoma state or to development of the ciliary ring predisposing to retinal detachment, or both.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009216:Myopia / Q000150:complications*; D010858:Pigmentation; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D014792:Visual Acuity