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Choroidal Osteoma

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Choroidal osteoma, a benign tumor of mature bone, first appeared in a textbook in 1963 but was misdiagnosed as a calcified choroidal hemangioma (Reese 1963). A second case was presented in 1975 in the Verhoeff Society by Van Dyk and published in 1978 by Williams, Font, Van Dyk, and Riekhof (Williams et al. 1978). A little earlier, Gass, Guerry, Jack, and Harris had written about this case, adding clinical descriptions of three others they had identified from photographs at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute (Gass et al. 1978). They established choroidal osteoma as an entity: a benign yet growing osseous tumor, located in the juxtapapillary choroid of healthy patients who were predominantly young females. The following year, Gass published already on 15 patients with choroidal osteoma, including four bilateral tumors (Gass 1979).

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Kivelä, T.T. (2019). Choroidal Osteoma. In: Rojanaporn, D. (eds) Ocular Oncology. Retina Atlas. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2336-2_5

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