[Acute zonal outer occult retinopathy].
METHODS
In May 2001 a 10-year-old boy, examined 3 months after the development of a large temporal scotoma in the right eye, was diagnosed with photopsia. The fundus appeared normal, visual field examination revealed a large temporal defect and, in July 2001, electroretinography (ERG) was nonrecordable. The left eye was normal. The field defects and ERG abnormality remained 4 years later, and the fundus developed a sharply demarcated zone of atrophy of the RPE.


CONCLUSIONS
We report a typical case of acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR). Although rare, its symptoms are variable, and its shape is not characteristic, making it difficult to make the correct diagnosis.
Asensio-Sánchez
V M
VM
Hospital General Servicio Castellano-Leonés de Salud, Medina del Campo, Valladolid, España. vasensio@hmdc.sacyl.es
Martínez-Calvo
S
S
Calvo
M J
MJ
Rodríguez
R
R
García-Panero
L
L
D000208:Acute Disease; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*