Recurrent vitreous hemorrhages due to combined pigment epithelial and retinal hamartoma: natural course and indocyanine green angiographic findings

Ophthalmologica. 2001 Jan-Feb;215(1):66-9. doi: 10.1159/000050829.

Abstract

We report the clinical and angiographic features as well as the natural course of an optic disk and juxtapapillary combined pigment epithelial and retinal hamartoma in a 23-year-old white girl. The patient presented 3 episodes of recurrent vitreous hemorrhages in the first 4 years of follow-up, which were spontaneously and totally absorbed. During the last 6 years, she was absolutely free of any ocular symptom. The tumor did not show any growth during the 10 years of follow-up. The digital indocyanine green angiography, which was normal in the early frames, revealed a mild, patchy hyperfluorescence corresponding to the tumor location in the late phase.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Fluorescein Angiography*
  • Fundus Oculi
  • Hamartoma / complications*
  • Hamartoma / diagnosis
  • Humans
  • Indocyanine Green*
  • Pigment Epithelium of Eye / pathology*
  • Recurrence
  • Retinal Diseases / complications*
  • Retinal Diseases / diagnosis
  • Vitreous Hemorrhage / etiology*

Substances

  • Indocyanine Green