title: Fundus albipunctatus associated with cone dystrophy.
abstract: We describe five unrelated patients in whom the typical signs of fundus albipunctatus were accompanied by colour vision defects, bull's eye or similar macular lesions, and severely diminished full-field cone electroretinograms indicating widespread damage to cones outside the macula. All patients had noticed night blindness from childhood. Signs of retinitis punctata albescens, a disease of similar appearance but with characteristics resembling retinitis pigmentosa, were absent. We cannot be sure whether these patients represent a process of fundus albipunctatus or a distinct disease entity or a casual combination of fundus albipunctatus and cone dystrophy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyake
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shiroyama
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugita
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Horiguchi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yagasaki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004596:Electroretinography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009755:Night Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D010786:Photoreceptor Cells / Q000473:pathology; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology