Slit Lamp Biomicrography
Introduction

Slit-lamp biomicrography encompasses a wide spectrum of challenging photographic techniques for imaging structures and diseases of the anterior segment. Most photographic slit-lamps are equipped with two lighting sources, variable flash intensity, changeable magnifications, and changeable angles of illumination. Patients present a wide variety of disease entities that have specific textures, colors, transparency, size and depth. The photographer or clinician examining the patient should employ the slit-lamp lighting technique that will best enhance the characteristics of the lesion being examined/photographed. There is no single definitive photograph that will best describe a patient's condition, therefore a photo essay or series of photographs can often relate the patient's condition more appropriately.