Torpedo maculopathy with an anisometropic amblyopia in a 5-year-old Caucasian girl: case report

Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia

Marco Dutra-medeiros¹  Paula Leitão¹  Ana Magriço¹  Alcina Toscano¹ 

[1] ,Central Hospital of Lisbon Center Department of Ophthalmology Lisbon,Portugal

关键词: Pigment epithelium of eye;    Retinal diseases;    Macula lutea;    Visual acuity;    Eye neoplasms;    Humans;    Female;    Child;    Case report;    Epitélio pigmentado ocular;    Doenças retinianas;    Macula lutea;    Acuidade visual;    Neoplasias oculares;    Humanos;    Feminino;    Criança;    Relato de caso;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0004-27492013000400015

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this study is to report a clinical case of asymptomatic female Caucasian children with torpedo maculopathy. A 5-year-old girl was referred to our clinic for routine evaluation. The ophthalmic examination revealed best-corrected visual acuity of 20/20 in both eyes, without any changes in the biomicroscopy. Fundus examination showed normal findings in one eye, whereas in the contralateral eye it disclosed, in the temporal sector of the macular region, a whitish, atrophic, oval chorioretinal lesion with clearly defined margins. Posterior evaluations documented the stability of the lesion. Torpedo maculopathy diagnosis is based on its characteristic shape and peculiar location. The differential diagnosis has to be estabilished versus choroidal lesions (melanoma and nevus), congenital or iatrogenic hyperplasia of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and particularly versus the congenital pigmented lesions associated with Gardner's syndrome.

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