title: Retinopathy of prematurity. Pathologic correlation of clinical stages.
abstract: This article details the pathologic features of recently described clinical stages of vitreoretinopathy associated with premature birth in humans, beginning with a review of retinal angiogenesis in humans and then of the five stages of retinopathy of prematurity, with a description of paramount clinical feature in each stage and then corresponding pathologic changes. The article concludes with a consideration of arrested and reactivated retinopathy.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic / Q000473:pathology; D012171:Retinal Vessels / Q000196:embryology / Q000473:pathology; D012178:Retinopathy of Prematurity / Q000473:pathology*