title: Peripapillary intrachoroidal cavitation in myopia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings in disorders recently described as peripapillary detachment in pathologic myopia (PDPM).
  
  
  METHODS
  Observational case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  OCT, fluorescein, and indocyanine green angiography.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 69-year-old woman presented with bilateral yellow-orange peripapillary area at the inferior border of the myopic conus, typical of PDPM. OCT showed this area as a large intrachoroidal hyporeflective space located below the normal plane of the retinal pigment epithelium. There was no detachment of the retinal pigment epithelium which appeared flat.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  OCT findings suggest calling this anomaly peripapillary intrachoroidal cavitation, instead of peripapillary detachment in pathologic myopia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Toranzo
authors.forename: Salomon Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Erginay
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gaudric
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007208:Indocyanine Green; D047728:Myopia, Degenerative / Q000150:complications*; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000473:pathology*; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D015422:Scleral Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence
chemical_list: D007208:Indocyanine Green