1. Focal Choroidal Excavation Following Blunt Trauma
- Author
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Mehmet Yasin Teke, Jesse T McCann, K. Bailey Freund, and Belinda C S Leong
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,genetic structures ,Vision Disorders ,Fundus (eye) ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Blunt ,Eye Injuries ,Optical coherence tomography ,Ophthalmology ,Medicine ,Humans ,Multimodal imaging ,Retina ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Choroid Diseases ,Fluorescein angiography ,eye diseases ,Choroidal excavation ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Blunt trauma ,030221 ophthalmology & optometry ,sense organs ,business - Abstract
The authors report a case of nonconforming focal choroidal excavation (FCE) identified in an eye following blunt, nonperforating trauma to the globe. Multimodal imaging was undertaken including color fundus photographs, enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography, fluorescein angiography, and fundus autofluorescence. This shows that FCE may result from blunt ocular trauma. The authors hypothesize that loss of structural support provided by an intact Bruch's membrane may be a key factor in precipitating the specific morphological changes associated with FCE occurring in a range of clinical settings. [ Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina . 2019;50:187–190.]
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- 2018