Retinal meteor

We describe a case of a 65-year old man diagnosed with retinal vasoproliferative tumour secondary to posterior uveitis. The fluorescein angiography shows an interesting meteor-like leak emanating from the tumour and rising towards the superior retina in the later frames of the angiogram. Pictorially...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Venkatesh, Ramesh, Gurav, Prachi, Dave, Prachi Abhishek, Roy, Sankhadeep
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
Materias:
Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28905838
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_68_17
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Sumario:We describe a case of a 65-year old man diagnosed with retinal vasoproliferative tumour secondary to posterior uveitis. The fluorescein angiography shows an interesting meteor-like leak emanating from the tumour and rising towards the superior retina in the later frames of the angiogram. Pictorially, we call it the “Retinal Meteor” and also describe the possible mechanism for this pattern of leakage.

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