Relationship of cystic retinal tufts to retinal detachment.
The histologic and gross pathologic features of cystic retinal tufts are reviewed, and the clinical characteristics of this lesion described. A survey of 200 retinal detachments revealed that cystic retinal tuft was the precipitating lesion for the detachment in from 6.5 to 10% of cases. Since the prevalence of cystic retinal tuft is 5%, the risk of such a lesion leading to retinal detachment was computed to be from 0.18 to 0.28%, and for this reason prophylactic treatment of cystic retinal tufts is not advised.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D012306:Risk