Highlights

• Wound healing involves an acute inflammatory phase, a proliferative phase, and a remodeling phase.

• In the eye, scarring from wound healing can result in decreased vision.

• The tensile strength of wounds in the cornea and sclera is less than that of native, undisturbed tissue, because these tissues are relatively avascular.

• In most circumstances, wounds of the uveal tissues (ie, iris, ciliary body, and choroid) do not stimulate a healing response.

• The retina is made of terminally differentiated cells that typically do not regenerate when injured.

• Injury to the optic nerve may result in irreversible axonal degeneration and vision loss.

Excerpted from BCSC 2020-2021 series: Section 4 - Ophthalmic Pathology and Intraocular Tumors. For more information and to purchase the entire series, please visit https://www.aao.org/bcsc.