title: Torpedo maculopathy: Two case reports and a literature review.
abstract: METHODS
  The cases concern a 4 year-old boy and 25 year-old female with 20/20 visual acuity, who presented with a unilateral non-pigmented macular lesion, temporal to the fovea, a torpedo shaped defect in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Optical coherence tomography showed attenuation of the RPE signal, and in the second patient there proved to be a neurosensory detachment, RPE atrophy, and thinning of the retinal layers. The lesion was hypoautofluorescent and hyperfluorescent on fluorescein angiography.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Torpedo maculopathy is an asymptomatic characteristic lesion which should be considered in the differential diagnosis of macular lesions in children and young patients.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón, Alcorcón, Madrid, España. Electronic address: sofiademanueltriantafilo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: de Manuel-Triantafilo
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón, Alcorcón, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gili
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón, Alcorcón, Madrid, España.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bañuelos Bañuelos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D058070:Asymptomatic Diseases; D001284:Atrophy; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D061848:Optical Imaging; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D055213:Retinal Pigment Epithelium / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence
keywords: Child; Epitelio pigmentario de la retina; Macula lutea; Mácula lútea; Niños; Optical coherence tomography; Retina; Retinal pigment epithelium; Tomografía óptica de coherencia