title: Photoreceptor Arrangement Changes Secondary to Choroidal Nevus.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Although mostly asymptomatic, patients with choroidal nevi carry a moderate risk for malignant transformation and visual loss. A novel noninvasive imaging assessment could change the current clinical evaluation of choroidal nevi.
  
  
  METHODS
  Three patients with a recent diagnosis of choroidal nevi underwent a novel adaptive optical assessment that detected potential photoreceptor abnormalities in the retina overlying the choroidal nevi.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Adaptive optics imaging may provide high-resolution en face images of retinal structural changes in the photoreceptor mosaic overlying the choroidal nevi. Cone attenuation may be an important component of structural damage in choroidal nevi and may correlate and possibly predict functional visual loss.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
authors.forename: Murilo W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
authors.forename: Zelia M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Correa
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Wills Eye, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: Emil A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Say
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
authors.forename: Felipe P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Borges
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rubens Camargo
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Siqueira
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
authors.forename: José Augusto
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Cardillo
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Ribeirão Preto School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jorge
mesh_terms: D002829:Choroid / Q000473:pathology*; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D009508:Nevus, Pigmented / Q000473:pathology*; D017949:Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / Q000473:pathology*; D055213:Retinal Pigment Epithelium / Q000473:pathology; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*