Evidence for Lymphatics in the Developing and Adult Human Choroid
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science2015Vol. 56(2), pp. 1310–1327
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Mark E. Koina, Louise Baxter, Sam Adamson, Frank Arfuso, Qiyun Yi, Michele C. Madigan, Tailoi Chan‐Ling
Abstract
The system of blind-ended initial lymphatic segments seen just external to the fenestrated vessels of the choriocapillaris is ideally placed for recirculating extracellular fluid and strategically placed for immune surveillance. The presence of a system of lymphatic-like channels in the human choroid provides an anatomical basis for antigen presentation in the posterior eye, with a possible route from the eye to the sentinel lymph nodes, similar to that already described for anterior eye lymphatics.
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