PMID: 15580000
Issn Print: 0275-004X
Publication Date: 2004/12/01
NONINVASIVE EVALUATION FOR RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM HAMARTOMA
YURI SATO; MAKOTO INOUE; NORIHIRO NAGAI; KEI SHINODA; HAJIME SHINODA; YOSHIHISA OGUCHI
Excerpt
Congenital anomalies of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) have been classified into four categories: RPE hamartoma, combined RPE and retinal hamartoma, melanotic nevi of the RPE (congenital hypertrophy of the RPE, or CHRPE), and amelanotic nevi of the RPE.1 RPE hamartomas are detected typically in the temporal macular area in young adults during routine eye examination; they usually do not change in size over time.1–4 Here we describe two cases with asymptomatic RPE hamartomas located at the central macula or the paramacula that were precisely localized and depicted by noninvasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) and scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) microperimetry.
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