Multi-modality imaging findings of huge intrachoroidal cavitation and myopic peripapillary sinkhole

Abstract Background Peripapillary intrachoroidal cavitation was described as the presence of an asymptomatic, well-circumscribed, yellow-orange, peripapillary lesion at the inferior border of the myopic conus in eyes with high myopia. Case presentation A 66-year-old myopic Chinese man was enrolled and his multi-color imaging examination showed a well-circumscribed, caesious, peripapillary lesion coalesced with the optic nerve head vertically rotated and obliquely tilted, together with an inferotemporal sinkhole in the myopic conus. The optical coherence tomography images showed an intrachoroidal hyporeflective space, schisis, an intracavitary septum located below the retinal pigment epithelium and inserted beneath the optic nerve head, as well as a sinkhole between the peripapillary intrachoroidal cavitation and the vitreous space. Conclusions Both myopic colobomas and sinkhole in myopic conus may contribute the coalescence of intrachoroidal cavitation with optic nerve head. These qualitative and quantitative new findings will be beneficial for understanding its pathomorphological mechanism, and the impact on optic nerve tissue of myopic patients..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

BMC Ophthalmology - 18(2018), 1, Seite 4

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yutong Chen [VerfasserIn]
Xiaoli Ma [VerfasserIn]
Rui Hua [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

En face technique
Intrachoroidal cavitation
Multi-color
Myopic peripapillary sinkhole
Ophthalmology

doi:

10.1186/s12886-018-0681-x

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DOAJ009873759