OSSEOUS METAPLASIA IN PROLIFERATIVE VITREORETINOPATHY

PURPOSE: To report the clinicopathologic features of intraocular osseo us production in association with proliferative vitreoretinopathy. MET HOD: The clinical and histopathologic features of two patients with pr oliferative vitreoretinopathy and intraocular bone formation are revie wed, RESULTS: Preretinal osseous tissue incorporated in the proliferat ive vitreoretinopathy was surgically removed in one patient, and osseo us tissue was present in the proliferative vitreoretinopathy in the en ucleated eye of the other patient. CONCLUSIONS: Bone formation, presum ably from metaplastic retinal pigment epithelium, may be present in pr oliferative vitreoretinopathy tissue, The intraocular bone is present internal rather than external to the neurosensory retina. (C) 1998 by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.