Subretinal neovascularization in a pseudophakic eye treated with krypton laser photocoagulation. A clinicopathologic case report
H. E. Grossniklaus, K. E. Frank and W. R. Green
Division of Ophthalmology, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, OH.
A 76-year-old myopic woman who had undergone bilateral extracapsular
cataract extractions and received posterior intraocular lens implants
underwent two sessions of krypton laser photocoagulation for subretinal
neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration in her
right eye. The patient expired and histopathologic examination of her
treated eye showed a posterior chamber intraocular lens with both haptics
in the ciliary sulcus, areas of macular degeneration, evidence of krypton
laser photocoagulation including a full-thickness retinal scar, and an area
of clinically unsuspected subretinal neovascularization.
