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Pathologic myopia is one of the major causes of visual impairment worldwide, the prevalence of which has been reported to be about 1% of the population [1–5]. The visual loss is mainly caused by pathological structural changes, such as lacquer crack formation, posterior staphyloma, thinning of the retina, choroid and sclera, retinal schisis, deformation of the optic disc area, and choroidal neovascularization (CNV) [6–9]. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is very efficient in non-invasive detection of these myopic lesions. The newer generation of OCT, swept source OCT (SS-OCT), has an increased depth of imaging and also a higher speed of scanning, which has made it one of the most useful imaging devices for characterizing pathologic myopia [10–12].

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    Atsushi Maeda MD, Takafumi Hirashima MD & Hideyasu Oh MD, PhD

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Maeda, A., Hirashima, T., Oh, H. (2017). Pathological Myopia. In: Michalewska, Z., Nawrocki, J. (eds) Atlas of Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49840-9_8

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