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An Unusual Presentation of Concurrent Congenital Grouped Pigmentation of the Retina with Albinotic Spots

A 10-year-old Japanese girl presented with multiple, small, flat, dark brown clusters of retinal pigment epithelium in both eyes. She had no other symptoms. The appearance was consistent with congenital grouped pigmentation of the retina or bear track spots. A unique co-existing feature was the pres...

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Autores principales: Watanabe, Meri, Makino, Shinji, Tampo, Hironobu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25802503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000375525
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author Watanabe, Meri
Makino, Shinji
Tampo, Hironobu
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description A 10-year-old Japanese girl presented with multiple, small, flat, dark brown clusters of retinal pigment epithelium in both eyes. She had no other symptoms. The appearance was consistent with congenital grouped pigmentation of the retina or bear track spots. A unique co-existing feature was the presence of small, albinotic spots within the entire retina. Fluorescein angiography demonstrated a persistent hypofluorescence correlating with the grouped pigmentation of the retina and granular hyperfluorescence correlating with the albinotic spots. Her mother also showed irregular pigmentation and albinotic spots in both eyes. We describe an extremely rare case of congenital grouped pigmentation and albinotic spots occurring in the retina of the same individual.
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spelling pubmed-43576832015-03-23 An Unusual Presentation of Concurrent Congenital Grouped Pigmentation of the Retina with Albinotic Spots Watanabe, Meri Makino, Shinji Tampo, Hironobu Case Rep Ophthalmol Published online: February, 2015 A 10-year-old Japanese girl presented with multiple, small, flat, dark brown clusters of retinal pigment epithelium in both eyes. She had no other symptoms. The appearance was consistent with congenital grouped pigmentation of the retina or bear track spots. A unique co-existing feature was the presence of small, albinotic spots within the entire retina. Fluorescein angiography demonstrated a persistent hypofluorescence correlating with the grouped pigmentation of the retina and granular hyperfluorescence correlating with the albinotic spots. Her mother also showed irregular pigmentation and albinotic spots in both eyes. We describe an extremely rare case of congenital grouped pigmentation and albinotic spots occurring in the retina of the same individual. S. Karger AG 2015-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4357683/ /pubmed/25802503 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000375525 Text en Copyright © 2015 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: February, 2015
Watanabe, Meri
Makino, Shinji
Tampo, Hironobu
An Unusual Presentation of Concurrent Congenital Grouped Pigmentation of the Retina with Albinotic Spots
title An Unusual Presentation of Concurrent Congenital Grouped Pigmentation of the Retina with Albinotic Spots
title_full An Unusual Presentation of Concurrent Congenital Grouped Pigmentation of the Retina with Albinotic Spots
title_fullStr An Unusual Presentation of Concurrent Congenital Grouped Pigmentation of the Retina with Albinotic Spots
title_full_unstemmed An Unusual Presentation of Concurrent Congenital Grouped Pigmentation of the Retina with Albinotic Spots
title_short An Unusual Presentation of Concurrent Congenital Grouped Pigmentation of the Retina with Albinotic Spots
title_sort unusual presentation of concurrent congenital grouped pigmentation of the retina with albinotic spots
topic Published online: February, 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25802503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000375525
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