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Neil Brooks - 26 Apr 2006 17:47 GMT

Ladies and Gentlemen ... it's a pinguecula ... right?

Just gazing in awe at my wife's brown eyes yesterday, when ol'
wildly-hyperopic Neil spotted something. Pulled out Ye Olde 8x Agfa
Lupe and noted this thing ... at about 9 o'clock on her right eye.

Pinguecula? Any reason to do anything about it, or simply watch it
for changes?

My photography sucks. If better pic's are needed, I can outsource the
project to a guy in Bangalore....

TIA,

Neil

http://nbeener.com/DJ_OD_BIG.JPG

http://nbeener.com/DJ_OD_FULL_VIEW.JPG

And ... for old time's sake:

http://nbeener.com/Otis_Brown_DB.bmp

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William Stacy - 26 Apr 2006 17:53 GMT

A pingueculum, the -a suffix is the plural.

Just "keep an eye" on it.

Am surprised you didn't add horns to the last pic...

w.stacy, o.d.

> Ladies and Gentlemen ... it's a pinguecula ... right?
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> http://nbeener.com/Otis_Brown_DB.bmp

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Neil Brooks - 26 Apr 2006 17:55 GMT

> A pingueculum, the -a suffix is the plural.
>
> Just "keep an eye" on it.

Thanks, Doc. I'll buy her some sunglasses, too, while I'm at it.

> Am surprised you didn't add horns to the last pic...

They don't appear in mirrors or photographs. Vampire thing....

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Mike Tyner - 26 Apr 2006 19:32 GMT

> Pinguecula? Any reason to do anything about it, or simply watch it
> for changes?
>
> If better pic's are needed, I can outsource the
> project to a guy in Bangalore....

The photo is OK. The pic makes it look fluid-filled and blister-shaped.
There are a couple of benign conditions like that; some come and go.

If it's ping, it's in very early stages. It may not be ping, but I don't
think it's anything else you should worry about.

-MT

> And ... for old time's sake:
>
> http://nbeener.com/Otis_Brown_DB.bmp

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Neil Brooks - 26 Apr 2006 20:58 GMT

> > Pinguecula? Any reason to do anything about it, or simply watch it
> > for changes?
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> If it's ping, it's in very early stages. It may not be ping, but I don't
> think it's anything else you should worry about.

Thanks much, Mike.

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Dom - 27 Apr 2006 13:33 GMT

> Ladies and Gentlemen ... it's a pinguecula ... right?
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> http://nbeener.com/Otis_Brown_DB.bmp

If you mean the lightly pigmented area just below the horizontal, it
don't look like a pinguecula to me. Pingueculae are usually nasal,
yellowish and raised (I think she might have one of those too, on the
nasal conjunctiva, but I can't tell for sure from your photo). I
wouldn't worry about it, but I would keep an eye on it, especially if
it's newly appeared.

OTOH, if you mean the thing directly under the camera flash... I can't
see it - it's over-exposed!!

Dom

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Neil Brooks - 27 Apr 2006 17:23 GMT

> > Ladies and Gentlemen ... it's a pinguecula ... right?
> >
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> > My photography sucks. If better pic's are needed, I can outsource the
> > project to a guy in Bangalore....

> If you mean the lightly pigmented area just below the horizontal, it
> don't look like a pinguecula to me. Pingueculae are usually nasal,
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> OTOH, if you mean the thing directly under the camera flash... I can't
> see it - it's over-exposed!!

Thanks much, Dom. I DO mean the thing directly under the camera flash --
at roughly 8:30pm, just to the outside of the limbus. It IS yellowish and
raised, looking like a tiny blister. I do note that there is a bit of
vasculature leading to/from it toward the lower outside edge of the
sclera--somewhat visible in that picture.

I think we're going to make her an app't with an optometrist, locally, just
to be sure.

She had PRK back in 7/04 and was wondering if this could be an artifact of
the healing process. I didn't think so, but....

Thanks again. Sorry about the photo quality. No plans to give up my day
job in the near future ;-)

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