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Natalie Borodoker, BA; Emmett T. Cunningham, Jr, MD, PhD, MPH; Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD; Renato Nicoletti, MD
New York, NY

Corresponding author and reprints: Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD, Vitreous-Retina-Macula Consultants of New York, 519 E 72nd St, Suite 203, New York, NY 10021.

Arch Ophthalmol. 2002;120:520-521.

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A 40-YEAR-OLD white woman with photopsia affecting her left eye had an ocular history notable for myopia. Medical and surgical histories were unremarkable. Best-corrected visual acuity was 20/25 OU. Examination of the left eye revealed mild vitreous inflammation; scattered, discrete, midperipheral chorioretinal scars; and a circumferential pigmentary streak encircling the far periphery (Figure 1). The right eye was normal. Laboratory test results for sarcoidosis, syphilis, and tuberculosis were negative. On the basis of the acute inflammation, the diagnosis of multifocal choroiditis was made.

Figure appears in full text version. Composite fundus photograph of the left eye showing confluent, circumferential, chorioretinal scars encircling the far periphery. Extensive bony spicule formations are accompanied by scattered, atrophic, and pigmented chorioretinal scars in the nasal midperiphery.

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Multifocal choroiditis is a disorder of unknown origin, occurring predominantly in young, otherwise healthy, myopic . . . [Full Text of this Article]