"Blue sclera" is most often a sign of Lobstein-van der Heve's syndrome, which belongs to the group of constitutional defects of connective tissue, due to numerous genetic injuries.
Maybe the acquired color change of the sclera - blackish, dirty-gray-bluish spots (yellow sclera) - with the intake of certain medicinal substances, preparations of silver, the use of cosmetics.
Rheumatism and rheumatoid diseases occupy a prominent place among various causes of ocular pathology. Epiclerites and sclerites in rheumatism are more common than tephonites and myositis and affect mainly people of young and mature age, equally often men and women.
With eye tuberculosis, sclerites occur mainly secondary because of the spread of the tuberculosis process from the vascular tract to the sclera in the ciliary region or peripheral parts of the choroid.
Epicleritis is an inflammation of the connective tissue that forms the outer surface of the sclera. Usually it is bilateral, as a rule, benign, occurs approximately in 2 times more often in women after 40 years.
Lymphoma of the conjunctiva is usually manifested in the elderly by eye irritation or painless swelling. Slowly growing, mobile, pinkish-yellow or flesh-colored infiltrates located in the lower arch or epibulbar.
Squamous cell carcinoma of the conjunctiva is a rare, slowly growing tumor with a low degree of malignancy, which can occur either on its own or from a previously existing KRIN. It is most common in patients with pigmentary xeroderma and AIDS.
Papilloma of the conjunctiva on the leg of the manifestation can be early, after birth, or years later. Papillomas, which can be numerous and sometimes bilateral, are most often located on the palpebral conjunctiva, vault or flesh.
