title: Pachychoroid neovasculopathy in extramacular choroidal neovascularization.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review a series of extramacular choroidal neovascular membranes (CNVMs) in the context of their choroidal features, as determined by optical coherence tomography (OCT).
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients with extramacular CNVMs were identified from a tertiary care center through a review of records. The charts and cases were reviewed using multimodal imaging including fundus photography, OCT, fluorescein angiography (FA), and indocyanine angio-graphy (ICG).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of six patients with extramacular CNVMs evaluated in this series, four patients (66.7%) exhibited pachychoroidopathy on OCT imaging under or adjacent to the extramacular CNVM. All four of these patients also exhibited pachychoroidopathy in the macular OCT distant from the CNVM.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pachychoroidopathy is implicated in some cases of extramacular CNVMs. This represents the first report, to our knowledge, of pachychoroidopathy in extramacular CNVM.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Mrinali Patel
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Irene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rusu
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Carly
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Seidman
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Anton
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Orlin
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Donald J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: D'Amico
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Szilard
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kiss
keywords: choroidal neovascularization; extramacular choroidal neovascularization; pachychoroid neovasculopathy; pachychoroidopathy; peripheral disciform lesions; polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy