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Optic nerve cyst associated with optic disk pits

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Abstract

Purpose

To report a case with two optic disk pits which were associated with an optic nerve cyst in the same eye.

Methods

Observational case report.

Results

A 47-year-old patient noted visual impairment in the right eye. On examination the best corrected visual acuity in the right eye was 20/80 and in the left eye was 20/20. Biomicroscopy revealed, in the right eye, a very pale optic disk with two optic disk pits without macular elevation. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a well circumscribed 6×6-mm2 round cystic lesion within the right optic nerve sheath adjacent to the temporal aspect of the right optic nerve at its retrobulbar segment, which compressed and displaced the nerve.

Conclusions

In the case of an extremely pale optic disk with congenital pits and visual impairment without macular detachment, radiological examination is indicated in order to exclude the possibility of coexisting optic nerve anomalies.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Athens University, 13 Lykiou street, 106 74, Athens, Greece

    Panagiotis G. Theodossiadis

  2. Department of Radiology, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Kyriakos Stringaris & Vasilios Papadopoulos

  3. Second Department of Ophthalmology, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Greece

    George P. Theodossiadis

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  1. Panagiotis G. Theodossiadis
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Correspondence to Panagiotis G. Theodossiadis.

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Theodossiadis, P.G., Stringaris, K., Papadopoulos, V. et al. Optic nerve cyst associated with optic disk pits. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 243, 718–720 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-004-1007-7

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