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Amod Gupta, MS; Subina Narang, MS; Vishali Gupta, MS; Ashok Sharma, MS; S. S. Pandav, MS; Paramjeet Singh, MD
Chandigarh, India

Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:1220-1221.

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A 20-YEAR-OLD woman had sudden painless diminution of vision in the right eye of 20 days' duration. She had noticed a spontaneously disappearing blister in the same eye on waking from sleep and was aware of a hearing deficit from the left ear. Her best-corrected Snellen visual acuity at initial examination was 6/24 OD and 6/6 OS. The left eye was normal. Slitlamp examination of the right eye revealed minimal cellular inflammation in the anterior chamber, posterior subcapsular cataract, and intraocular pressure of 4 mm Hg with applanation tonometer. The fundus examination showed hypotonic retinopathy and a choroidal coloboma just temporal to the major vascular arcades (Figure 1). Interestingly, a fistula could be seen in the coloboma, which appeared to open and close on eye movements. B-scan ultrasonography also . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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