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The aim of the study was to evaluate the local status of the sclera in lattice retinal degeneration. Patients with lattice degeneration, snail-track degeneration, or horseshoe retinal breaks were included. One lesion of a single eye in each patient was captured with cross-sectional optical coherence tomography (OCT) along and across the greatest lesion dimension. The maximum height of scleral indentation was measured and compared between different lesion types and between lattice lesions with and without retinal breakage or local detachment. The correlation between the maximum height of the scleral indentation of lattice lesions and the age of the patients was calculated. Seventy-five eyes of 75 patients (44.4 ± 14.7 years; 35 males and 30 females) were included. OCT showed variable local scleral indentation in 52 out of 55 (94.5%) lattice lesions, in five out of nine (55.5%) snail-tack lesions, and in three out of eleven (27.3%) horseshoe breaks. The maximum scleral indentation within lattice lesions, snail-tack lesions, and horseshoe breaks was 227.2 ± 111.3, 22.0 ± 49.2, and 88.5 ± 48.4 µm, respectively ( < 0.001 for snail-tack lesions and horseshoe breaks compared to lattice lesions). Lattice lesions with retinal breaks and/or local retinal detachment had statistically significantly lower scleral indentation than those without ( = 0.01). The height of the scleral indentation of lattice lesions was positively correlated with patient age (r = 0.51, = 0.03). In conclusion, scleral indentation is one of the hallmarks of lattice retinal degeneration and may be associated with a reduced risk of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
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