Photoreceptor Arrangement Changes Secondary to Choroidal Nevus.
JAMA Ophthalmol
; 134(11): 1315-1319, 2016 Nov 01.
Article
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| ID: mdl-27711926
IMPORTANCE: Although mostly asymptomatic, patients with choroidal nevi carry a moderate risk for malignant transformation and visual loss. A novel noninvasive imaging assessment could change the current clinical evaluation of choroidal nevi. OBSERVATION: Three patients with a recent diagnosis of choroidal nevi underwent a novel adaptive optical assessment that detected potential photoreceptor abnormalities in the retina overlying the choroidal nevi. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Adaptive optics imaging may provide high-resolution en face images of retinal structural changes in the photoreceptor mosaic overlying the choroidal nevi. Cone attenuation may be an important component of structural damage in choroidal nevi and may correlate and possibly predict functional visual loss.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Choroid Neoplasms
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Choroid
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Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells
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Tomography, Optical Coherence
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Nevus, Pigmented
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
JAMA Ophthalmol
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Country of publication:
United States