title: Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy in the fellow eye 5 years after presentation of punctate inner choroidopathy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There has been argument about the relationship between posterior inner choroidopathy (PIC) and acute zonal occult outer retinopathy (AZOOR).
  
  
  METHODS
  Case study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 26-year-old woman was diagnosed as having PIC in the right eye in 1998. Multiple yellow-white lesions in the inner choroid and retina were found in the posterior pole of her right eye and were treated with corticosteroid therapy. In 2003, she was referred to us complaining of visual field defect in the left eye. By means of electroretinographic and static perimetric analyses, she was diagnosed as having AZOOR in the left eye.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This case presents indirect evidence that PIC and AZOOR may have some common etiologic or pathogenic background.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, 036-8562, Japan.
authors.forename: Kurenai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Taira
authors.forename: Mitsuru
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nakazawa
authors.forename: Yoshiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takano
authors.forename: Takuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ota
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002833:Choroiditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D004596:Electroretinography; D005260:Female; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D058609:Visual Field Tests; D014794:Visual Fields
chemical_list: D005938:Glucocorticoids; D011239:Prednisolone