title: CIRCINATE PARTITION-LIKE FINDINGS ON CONE MOSAIC IMAGED BY ADAPTIVE OPTICS SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY IN EYES WITH INNER NUCLEAR LAYER MICROCYSTIC CHANGES.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report cases that showed partition-like, dark areas in the cone mosaic on adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) images in eyes with inner nuclear layer (INL) microcystic changes.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eyes with INL microcystic changes were imaged by prototype AO-SLO.
  
  
  RESULTS
  An eye with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, an eye with traumatic optic neuropathy, and an eye with retinitis pigmentosa that showed microcystic lesions in the INL were imaged by AO-SLO. The images revealed characteristic, dark, partition-like lesions in the cone mosaic of all the eyes in areas where microcystic changes in the INL were shown by spectral domain optical coherence tomography. The AO-SLO findings in eyes with optic neuropathy were quite similar in shape and size to those seen in eyes with retinitis pigmentosa.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We report cases that manifest dark, partition-like areas in the cone mosaic on AO-SLO images. Microcystic lesions in the INL may affect the images of the cone mosaic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Sotaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ooto
authors.forename: Yukiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Makiyama
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hata
authors.forename: Kazuaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
authors.forename: Nagahisa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009887:Ophthalmoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D009896:Optic Atrophy / Q000473:pathology*; D029242:Optic Atrophy, Hereditary, Leber / Q000473:pathology; D012174:Retinitis Pigmentosa / Q000473:pathology*; D055815:Young Adult