DIAGRAM TMG

INDIRECT OPHTHALMOSCOPY
Colour Coding
COLOUR CODING
 RED– SOLID
• Retinal arterioles
• Neovascularization
• Vascular abnormalities\ anomalies
• Vortex veins
• Attached retina
• Haemorrhages (pre-retinal and intra-retinal)
• Open interior of conventional retinal breaks (tears, holes)
• Open interior of outer layer holes in retinoschisis
• Normal macula is drawn as a red dot
• Open portion of GRT or large dialyses
• Inner portion of CRA
• Inner portion of thin areas of retina
• Open portion of retinal holes in inner layer of retinoschisis
 BLUE- SOLID
• Detached retina
• Retinal viens
• Outlines of retinal breaks
• Outlines of ora serrata
• Meridional,radial, fixed & circumferential folds
• VR traction tufts
• Retinal granular tags & tufts
• Outline of flat neo-vascularization
• Outline of lattice degeneration [inner ‘x’]
• Outline of thin areas of retina
• Intra-retinal cysts [with overlying curvilinear stripes to show configuration]
• Inner layer of retinoschisis
• White with or without pressure
• Detached parsplana epithelium anterior to seperation of ora serrata
• Rolled edges of retinal tears[ curved lines]
 BLUE
• Stippled\circled
• Cystoid degeneration
• Interrupted lines
• Outline of change in area or folds of detached retina because of shifting fluid
 GREEN-SOLID
• Opacities in the media
• Vitreous haemorrhage
• Vitreous membranes
• Hyaloid ring
• IOFB
• Retinal operculum
• CW spots
• Pearls of ora
• Outline of elevated NV
 GREEN
• Green Stippled\dotted
• Asteroid hyalosis
• Frosting or snowflakes on cystoid degenerations, retinoschisis,or lattice
degeneration
 BROWN-SOLID

• Uveal tissue
• Pars plana cysts
• Ciliary processess
• Striae ciliaris
• Pigment beneath detached retina
• Outline of CRA beneath detached retina
• Pigment Epithelial Detachment
• Outline of posterior staphyloma
• Malignant choroidal melanomas
• Edge of buckle beneath detached retina
• Choroidal detachment
 YELLOW
• Yellow-solid
• Intraretinal oedema
• Intraretinal subretinal hard yellow exudate
• Deposits in the RPE
• Detached maculae in some retinal seperations
• Post-PHC retinal edema
• Substance of long & short ciliary nerves
• Yellow – stippled Drusen
 BLACK-SOLID
• Edge of buckle beneath attached retina
• Outline of CRA
• Hyperpigmentation as a result of previous t\t with Cryo\PHC\Diathermy
• Naevi
• Sheathed vessels
• Outline of Long & Short Post Ciliary vein & nerve
• Pigment in choroid, or pigmented epithelial hyperpigmentation in areas of
attached retina
• Pigmented demarcation lines at attached margin of detached retina or
within detached retina