title: CLINICAL APPRAISAL AND RETINAL IMAGING IN POSTERIOR MICROPHTHALMOS.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a critical case series of five patients with posterior microphthalmos and the review of their clinical findings with the analyses of retinal imaging.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case series. Complete ophthalmological examinations including optical coherence tomography (OCT) were evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  All patients had decreased visual acuity with high hyperopic refraction. Dilated fundus examination demonstrated that elevated papillomacular retinal folds with anterior segment were unremarkable. Total axial lengths measurements showed reduced axial lengths and B-scan ultrasonography revealed sclerochoroidal thickening. Moreover, papillomacular folds were confirmed by OCT.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dilated fundus examination, fundus fluorescein angiography, orbital ultrasonography, and proper OCT evaluation will be helpful to reach a diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: a Ankara Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital , Ankara , Turkey.
authors.forename: Kemal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tekin
authors.affiliation: a Ankara Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital , Ankara , Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet Yasin
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Teke
authors.affiliation: a Ankara Ulucanlar Eye Education and Research Hospital , Ankara , Turkey.
authors.forename: Mehmet
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Citirik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D058452:Axial Length, Eye / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008850:Microphthalmos / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009915:Orbit / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012029:Refraction, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D012160:Retina / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology
keywords: Axial lengths; optical coherence tomography; papillomacular folds; posterior microphthalmos; ultrasonography