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Myopic Chorioretinal Atrophy

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Various lesions of myopic maculopathy develop in the posterior fundus of eyes with pathologic myopia and cause an irreversible vision loss. Myopic maculopathy begins with the development of tessellated (or tigroid) fundus, and later other lesions, such as lacquer cracks, diffuse chorioretinal atrophy, and patchy chorioretinal atrophy, develop. These lesions coexist in some cases. In this chapter, the features, the diagnosis, the frequency, and the natural progression of the lesions of myopic maculopathy are reviewed.

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    Kyoko Ohno-Matsui

  3. Department of Clinical Ophthalmology, Columbia University School of Medicine, LuEsther T. Mertz Retinal Research Center, New York, New York, USA

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Ohno-Matsui, K. (2014). Myopic Chorioretinal Atrophy. In: Spaide, R., Ohno-Matsui, K., Yannuzzi, L. (eds) Pathologic Myopia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8338-0_14

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