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Upper: The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is intact over the choroidal neovascularization (CNV), indicated by the asterisk, but photoreceptor degeneration is occurring. Lower: Photoreceptor degeneration is more pronounced and accompanied by loss of the RPE. Reprinted with permission from Green WR. Histopathology of age-related macular degeneration. Mol Vis. 1999;5:27; originally published in Green WR, Enger C. Age-related macular degeneration histopathologic studies. The 1992 Lorenz E. Zimmerman Lecture. Ophthalmology. 1993;100(10):1519–1535. Copyright 1993 American Academy of Ophthalmology, Inc.