title: Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and fundus autofluorescence characteristics in patients with fundus albipunctatus and retinitis punctata albescens.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Fundus albipunctatus is a form of congenital stationary night blindness characterized by an early onset and nonprogressive impairment of night vision and the presence of numerous dull-white punctate lesions scattered throughout the fundus, while retinitis punctata albescens patients often show similar fundus changes but manifest a severe and progressive hereditary retinal dystrophy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In this study, we report the optical coherence tomography and fundus autofluorescence measurements in patients with these hereditary night blinding diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: Mohamed A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Genead
authors.forename: Gerald A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Fishman
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lindeman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003118:Color Perception; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004596:Electroretinography; D015785:Eye Diseases, Hereditary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009755:Night Blindness / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology; D017948:Retinal Rod Photoreceptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence; D014794:Visual Fields