title: Retrobulbar optic neuritis and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in a fourteen-year-old girl with retinitis pigmentosa sine pigmento.
abstract: A 14-year-old girl complained of a sudden decrease in right visual acuity. The patient had night blindness, a mottled retina but no pigments, extinguished scotopic electroretinographic response, central scotoma in the right eye and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment. She had initially received laser photocoagulation around the retinal tear and then corticosteroid therapy, cryoretinopexy and segmental buckling. Her right visual acuity increased to 1.0. The association of retinitis pigmentosa sine pigmento, retrobulbar optic neuritis and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, as demonstrated in our patient, may be uncommon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Toyama, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hatta
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hayasaka
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kadoi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003452:Cryosurgery; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D017075:Laser Coagulation; D009755:Night Blindness / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D009902:Optic Neuritis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D012174:Retinitis Pigmentosa / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D012591:Scleral Buckling; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014794:Visual Fields
chemical_list: D005938:Glucocorticoids