Pigment epithelial pattern dystrophy. Four different manifestations in a family
P. T. de Jong and J. W. Delleman
The development of a retinal pigment epithelial dystrophy with a horseshoe
pattern is described. In the same family, pigmentations resembling
butterfly dystrophy, fundus pulverulentus, and reticular dystrophy were
found. Since reticular dystrophy, macroreticular dystrophy, fundus
pulverulentus, butterfly dystrophy, and pattern dystrophy lead to the same
results with regard to visual acuity, visual fields, dark adaptation, color
vision, ERG, and electro-oculogram and since they all seem to be inherited
in an autosomal dominant manner, we suggest that they are different
expressions of the same pigment epithelial dystrophy for which pattern
dystrophy seems the most appropriate name.
