Dr. Parthopratim Dutta Majumder

Senior Consultant, Department of Uvea , Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai

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Parthopratim Dutta Majumder completed his graduation and post-graduation from Silchar Medical College, Assam University. He pursued his fellowship in Medical Retina and Uvea at Sankara Nethralaya and currently holds the position of Professor and senior consultant in the same department. With a remarkable career, he has garnered numerous accolades, including the Dr. TLK Row Endowment Award for the best associate consultant (2010-11), the Dr. Nataraj Pillai Award, The Best of IJO, and the Dr. K. R. Dutta Award. As a distinguished speaker, Parthopratim has delivered more than 290+ talks at various national and international meetings, sharing his expertise and insights. He has published more than 200+ research articles across diverse peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals. In recognition of his expertise, Prof. Dutta Majumder has held esteemed editorial positions and associated various journals and serving as reviewer for many of them. Prof. Dutta Majumder's expertise extends to the realm of academic writing, having authored over 70+ chapters in various ophthalmology books. He has also authored four books. Parthopratim has been ranked among the world's top 2% of scientists in 2024 and 2025, according to the Scientist's List by Stanford University. He currently serves as the Secretary of the Uveitis Society of India (USI). He has served the society earlier as treasurer. He is a member of the International Uveitis Study Group (IUSG), Intraocular Inflammation Society (IOIS). He is actively involved in teaching and various curricular activities with various organizations and societies. Notably, he is also the Founder cum Chief Editor of the popular ophthalmology portal www.eophtha.com

  1. Anatomy of eye 5 Apr 2020 4 min read

    Anatomy of Vitreous

    Vitreous is a transparent, colour less gel like structure which occupies the posterior compartment of the eye. It comprises about 80% of the total volume of the globe (two third of total volume of eye), about 4mL. The surfaces of the intraocular structures that interface with vitreous are mainly basement membrane in nature e.g. pars plana of cilliary body, internal limiting membrane of retina and vitreous is attached to them with varying strength of adhesion. Vitreous at a glance: Contains more than 98% of water It has viscosity more than 2-3 times than that of water. Refractive index 1.33 Ethymology: The word “vitreous” is derived from a Latin word “vitrum” which means glass. Attachments of vitreous: Vitreous is attached to its surrounding structures by condensation of collagen fibrils. From strongest to weakest, these are- Vitreous base-strongest Posterior lens capsule with the help of hyaloideocapsular ligament of Weiger Margins of the optic disc At the macula Along the retinal vess

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  2. Anatomy of eye 5 Apr 2020 10 min read

    Anatomy of Lens

    The crystalline lens is a unique transparent, biconvex, avascular intraocular structure with slightly more curved posterior surface .The radius of curvature of anterior surface is 10 mm and that of posterior surface is 6 mm. Lens is a unique structure, which contains cells of a single type, in various stages of differentiation Topography: The center of the anterior surface is called anterior pole and it is situated 3mm away from the posterior (endothelial) surface of cornea. The center of the posterior surface is called posterior pole. The distance between these poles is measured as lens thickness. The thickness of lens is 3mm at birth, which increases to 6mm in older age. The marginal circumferences of the lens, where anterior and posterior surface meet, are known as equator. Equatorial or lens diameter is generally measured in nasal to temporal dimension. The equatorial diameter of lens is 6.5 mm at birth, which reaches to 9-10 mm in adult life. The equator of the lens is encircled b

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  3. Anatomy of eye 5 Apr 2020 12 min read

    Anatomy of Cornea

    The cornea is the transparent tissue that covers the front of the eye.It forms anterior 1/6th of the outer fibrous coat of eyeball. The word cornea has come from “Kerato”. The term “Kerato” in greek means horn or shield like. Ancient Greek used to believe that cornea is derived from same material like that of thinly sliced horn of animal. Embryology: Structure Derived from Corneal epithelium Surface ectoderm Stroma, Descmet’s membrane, endothelium Paraxial mesoderm Topography: Anterior surface of the cornea is elliptical whereas posterior surface is spherical with average diameter 11.5 mm. Horizontal diameter of the anterior surface (HCD) is 11.7 mm and vertical diameter (VCD) is 11mm.Of them HCD is of clinically important.The radius of curvature of cornea is 8 (7.8 mm).It is the result of differences in radius of curvature in the vertical horizontal meridians which causes astigmatism. Microcornea = when HCD is less than 10mm Macrocornea = when HCD is more than 13 mm The central cornea

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  4. Interesting Reads 29 Aug 2009 6 min read

    Pictionary of Eye

    It is a human tendency to compare everything with day-to-day life happening, objects around them. Proverbs are one such example; they give some form of life advice with examples of very commonly occurring incidents/things in our daily life. In medical science, we often come across such analogical expressions that had been picked up from some common objects. Because of the resemblance with the morphological appearance of a clinical entity, such analogical terminology often help us to understand the clinical entity in a more straightforward way. In the “Pictionary” section, I have tried to highlight few such terminologies. Please mail me (drparthopratim@gmail.com) the terminologies I have missed here Animal Fat : Animal Fats are used in describing mainly two terminologies in ophthalmology. The first one is mutton-fat keratic precipitates. Large greasy-appearing aggregates of inflammatory cells on the corneal endothelium, typically seen in granulomatous anterior uveitis, are termed as “Mu

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