title: EN-FACE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING IN A CASE OF CHOROIDAL RUPTURE.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a case of choroidal rupture resulting due to blunt trauma using en-face optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 22-year-old man sustained a blunt trauma to his right eye. At the initial examination, four lesions with a subretinal hemorrhage were observed during a fundus examination of the macular area including the fovea, but the findings under the lesions were unclear. The authors observed the extent of the minute findings noninvasively by en-face OCT imaging from the initial examination. Six months after the trauma, the fine crescent-shaped lines seen by angiography and OCT B-scan images were consistent with findings observed on the en-face OCT images.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The en-face OCT imaging would be useful to examine the pathological changes in a choroidal rupture noninvasively during frequent follow-up examinations in a case of choroidal rupture.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Ophthalmology, and.
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mase
authors.affiliation: Medicine and Engineering Combined Research Institute, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan.
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ishiko
authors.affiliation: Departments of Ophthalmology, and.
authors.forename: Tomofumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.affiliation: Departments of Ophthalmology, and.
authors.forename: Akitoshi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yoshida
mesh_terms: D002829:Choroid / Q000293:injuries*; D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012421:Rupture / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*; D055815:Young Adult