[Poor visual outcome in acute multifocal placoid pigment posterior epitheliopathy. A clinical case].
We report a case of a fifty-year-old women suffering from acute multifocal posterior placoid pigment epitheliopathy (AMPPPE), very atypical in terms of clinical appearance and course. From this observation, we provide a progress report on the usual course of AMPPPE as well as atypical features of this affection through reports in the literature; finally we detail disorders ressembling both AMPPPE and serpiginous choroidopathy, the main differential diagnosis.
Ducos de Lahitte
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Service d'Ophtalmologie, Hôpital Avicenne, 125, boulevard Stalingrad, 93009 Bobigny, France.
Fajnkuchen
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Giraud
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Chaine
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D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010857:Pigment Epithelium of Eye / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011379:Prognosis; D011859:Radiography; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000209:etiology*