title: The convex retina: optical coherence tomography in hypermetropic shift, without choroidal folds, from intraconal cavernous haemangioma.
abstract: A 36-year-old female referred with improving unaided vision in her left myopic eye was found to have a left 4.5 diopter hypermetropic shift. Examination revealed a left 2 mm proptosis but was otherwise normal with no choroidal folds on fundoscopy and bilateral 6/5 corrected vision. Her visual field and B scan image were also unremarkable. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging demonstrated left-sided anterior retinal bowing with a convex retinal appearance. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) confirmed a well-circumscribed intraconal mass. The intraconal mass was successfully removed via lateral orbitotomy and confirmed as a cavernous haemangioma on histological assessment. We document these OCT findings and review published ultrasound detected scleral deformation from similar retro-orbital mass cases.
authors.affiliation: The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter EX25DW, United Kingdom. robweir@ymail.com
authors.forename: Robert E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Weir
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Steven David
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Hajdu
authors.forename: Mike J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Potts
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D006956:Hyperopia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009918:Orbital Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014792:Visual Acuity