Arcus senilis

As Arcus senilis ( corneal ) (also lipoides Arcus corneae, Greis bow or gerontoxon ) is called a conditional by lipid storage narrower, from the edge of the cornea ( limbus ) remote cloud ring bradytrophic the cornea of ​​the eye. It is of gray-white color, often occurs in the elderly to ( Arcus senilis lipoides ) and is without clinical significance. A similar phenomenon ( Arcus lipoides juvenilis ) can be observed with dyslipidemia ( hypercholesterolemia ) in younger patients. To distinguish from the Arcus senilis is also the greenish-brown Kayser- Fleischer ring in the Wilson's disease.

  • Ophthalmology
  • Geriatrics
Corneal limbus Kayser–Fleischer ring
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