This image demonstrates an iris tumor that is sitting in the angle. Photograph was made by James Gilman of the Moran Eye Center using a Goldmann 3-mirror lens scatter illumination with a Zeiss photo slitlamp and a Nikon D-1X camera.
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- Part I: Foundations
- Part II: Anatomy and Physiology of the retina
- Part III: Retinal Circuits
- Part IV: Neurotransmitters in the Retina
- Part V: Phototransduction and Photoreceptor Synaptic Pathways
- Part VI: Retinal Neurogenesis: Early stages in the development of neurons and pathways
- Part VII: Color Vision
- Part VIII: Psychophysics of Vision
- Part IX: Brain Visual Areas
- Part X: Repair and Regeneration in the visual sytem
- Part XI: Electrophysiology
- Part XII: Cell biology of retinal degenerations
- Part XIII: Facts and Figures concerning the human retina
[...] tumors are fairly common and have been featured here on Webvision before. Most “tumors” are actually cysts or benign nevi, but malignant melanomas also can [...]