Roth spots

Roth spots
round or oval white spots consisting of coagulated fibrin seen in the retina in a number of diseases in which a vascular insult resulting in hemorrhage is followed by healing.

Roth spots, multiple hemorrhages, and perivascular infiltrates in a patient with leukemia.


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