Focal choroidal excavation associated with focal retinochoroiditis.
OBJECTIVE
To describe detailed spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings for two patients with focal choroidal excavation (FCE) associated with focal retinochoroiditis.


METHODS
Three eyes from two patients with FCE associated with focal retinochoroiditis were evaluated by funduscopy, fluorescence angiography, indocyanine green angiography, and spectral-domain OCT during follow-up. Both patients with focal retinochoroiditis developed new FCE after oral steroid treatment and two eyes showed regression of the FCE during the follow-up. Both eyes from one patient transformed from the conforming to the nonconforming type and neither of the eyes were stable during the follow-up. Ultimately, all eyes exhibited the conforming-type FCE.


CONCLUSIONS
Focal choroidal excavation can be seen as a tomographic phenotype after the treatment of focal retinochoroiditis. Spectral-domain OCT was useful for detecting the development of FCE after the treatment and for observing FCE regression.
*MD Department of Ophthalmology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (all authors).
Tetsutaro
T
Ohki
Tsutomu
T
Sakai
Hiroshi
H
Tsuneoka
D000328:Adult; D002825:Chorioretinitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D004396:Coloring Agents; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D007208:Indocyanine Green; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology
D004396:Coloring Agents; D005938:Glucocorticoids; D011239:Prednisolone; D007208:Indocyanine Green