Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in Simple Retina Pigment Epithelium Hamartoma

• Main Authors: Melis Palamar Onay, Ayşe Yağcı
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Galenos Yayinevi 2012-03-01
• Series: Türk Oftalmoloji Dergisi
• Subjects: : Hamartoma; retinal pigment epithelium; spectral-domain optic coherence tomography; ultrasonography
• Online Access: http://www.oftalmoloji.org/article_2149/Spectral-Domain-Optical-Coherence-Tomography-In-Simple-Retina-Pigment-Epithelium-Hamartoma

To report the spectral-domain optical coherence tomographic findings in a case of a simple hamartoma of the retinal pigment epithelium. A 55-year-old female patient with simple hamartoma of the retinal pigment epithelium was evaluated with ultrasonography and spectraldomain optic coherence tomography. The patient was found to have a pitch-black lesion measuring one-half of the disk diameter, located at about 1 disk diameter temporal to the foveola. B-mode ultrasonogram revealed a 0.8-mm thick retinal lesion with high internal reflectivity which was consistent with simple hamartoma of the retinal pigment epithelium. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography demonstrated an elevated lesion extending from the retinal layer toward the vitreous. The high resolution of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography allows detailed observation of the retinal pigment epithelium hamartomas and is useful in the differential diagnosis and management of pigmented fundus lesions. (Turk J Oph thal mol 2012; 42: 157-8)