title: Choroidal thickness in inferior staphyloma associated with posterior serous retinal detachment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of the study was to describe the choroidal findings in eyes with posterior serous retinal detachment associated with inferior staphyloma by enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study involved five eyes of five patients with the inferior staphyloma accompanied by posterior serous retinal detachment. In each case, the upper border of the staphyloma was lying across the macula. Enhanced depth imaging spectral domain optical coherence tomography was performed in a vertical-sectional manner through the fovea, and the choroidal thicknesses at the thinnest point, at the fovea, and at 0.5 mm and 1.0 mm superior and inferior to the thinnest point were measured. Fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography were also performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In all 5 eyes, the choroid was thinnest at the upper border of the staphyloma (mean, 37.4 μm; SD, 13.5 μm; range, 23-53 μm). Fluorescein angiography showed a band of window defects along the upper border of the staphyloma, where indocyanine green angiography demonstrated persistent hypoperfusion in all 5 eyes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The choroid was markedly thin at the upper border of the inferior staphyloma accompanied by posterior serous retinal detachment. Such choroidal abnormality seemed to play an important role in the development of serous retinal detachment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamagishi
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koizumi
authors.forename: Taizo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001769:Blood; D002829:Choroid / Q000473:pathology*; D004396:Coloring Agents; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007208:Indocyanine Green; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009929:Organ Size; D057972:Posterior Eye Segment / Q000473:pathology*; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000209:etiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D004396:Coloring Agents; D007208:Indocyanine Green