“…Scleral staphylomas are a feature of highly myopic eyes. They have been described as outpouchings of a circumscribed region of the posterior sclera [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ]. Scleral staphylomas show a relatively abrupt scleral thinning at the staphyloma edge; a pronounced de-arrangement of scleral collagen fibrils; a marked, segmentally accentuated, choroidal thinning, most marked at the staphyloma border; and spatially correlated BM defects.…”