title: [Circumscribed choroidal hemangioma treated with photodynamic therapy].
abstract: METHODS
  A 45-year-old male referred with a scotoma in the left eye of 2 months' evolution. A peripapillary tumor was found, with a basal diameter of 7 mm and thickness 3.4 mm. It was diagnosed as a circumscribed choroidal hemangioma. It was decided to treat the patient using photodynamic therapy. After 4 sessions and 17 months follow-up, the patient remained asymptomatic and visual acuity was stable. There was evidence of subretinal fibrosis and no subretinal fluid was found.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Photodynamic therapy is a good option for the treatment of circumscribed choroidal hemangioma given the minimal damage is causes to the adjacent retina.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, España. lopquer@hotmail.com
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: López-Quero
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Casas-Fernández
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lucas-Elío
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-González-Herrero
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Marín-Sánchez
mesh_terms: D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010778:Photochemotherapy