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Atypical presentation of acute macular neuroretinopathy with tiny parafoveal reddish-brown lesions

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Abstract

Purpose

To report two cases of acute macular neuroretinopathy with unusually small parafoveal lesions, which showed later recurrent lesions either in the same eye or the fellow eye.

Methods

Observational case series.

Patients

In case 1, a 48-year-old woman developed a sudden onset of a tiny paracentral scotoma associated with a small reddish-brown paracentral lesion. A new paracentral lesion with a corresponding scotoma developed 1 year later. In case 2, a 39-year-old man with diabetes type 1 developed a pracentral scotoma OS with a corresponding small reddish-brown lesion. Two months later, a similar lesion with a corresponding scotoma developed in the fellow eye.

Conclusions

Acute macular neuroretinopathy may present with tiny paracentral lesions difficult to detect with fundus examination, and may be associated with recurrent lesions either in the same eye or the fellow eye.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima City Hospital, 20-17 Kajiya-cho, Kagoshima, 892-8580, Japan

    Yukiko Matsuo, Akinori Uemura & Tetsuro Nakano

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima, Japan

    Yukiko Matsuo & Taiji Sakamoto

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Inoue

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Correspondence to Akinori Uemura.

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Matsuo, Y., Uemura, A., Nakano, T. et al. Atypical presentation of acute macular neuroretinopathy with tiny parafoveal reddish-brown lesions. Jpn J Ophthalmol 55, 362–364 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10384-011-0028-0

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