Stargardt’s disease presenting with bilateral central ring scotoma

Ring scotoma is an annular field defect centered on fixation. Age-related macular degeneration in the elderly and hydroxychloroquine toxicity in younger patients are usual causes of central ring scotoma. We report bilateral ring scotoma as the presentation of adult onset Stargardt’s disease. Central...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Sunil, El Menaisi, Abdullah Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sjopt.2018.07.008
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description Ring scotoma is an annular field defect centered on fixation. Age-related macular degeneration in the elderly and hydroxychloroquine toxicity in younger patients are usual causes of central ring scotoma. We report bilateral ring scotoma as the presentation of adult onset Stargardt’s disease. Central ring scotoma has a precise localizing value, to a lesion involving macula.
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spelling pubmed-63007552018-12-21 Stargardt’s disease presenting with bilateral central ring scotoma Kumar, Sunil El Menaisi, Abdullah Mohammad Saudi J Ophthalmol Case Report Ring scotoma is an annular field defect centered on fixation. Age-related macular degeneration in the elderly and hydroxychloroquine toxicity in younger patients are usual causes of central ring scotoma. We report bilateral ring scotoma as the presentation of adult onset Stargardt’s disease. Central ring scotoma has a precise localizing value, to a lesion involving macula. Elsevier 2018 2018-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6300755/ /pubmed/30581310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sjopt.2018.07.008 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Stargardt’s disease presenting with bilateral central ring scotoma
title_full Stargardt’s disease presenting with bilateral central ring scotoma
title_fullStr Stargardt’s disease presenting with bilateral central ring scotoma
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title_short Stargardt’s disease presenting with bilateral central ring scotoma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581310
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