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Review
. 2014 Winter;3(4):111-5.

Pachychoroid diseases of the macula

Roberto Gallego-Pinazo  1 , Rosa Dolz-Marco  1 , Francisco Gómez-Ulla  2 , Sarah Mrejen  3 , K Bailey Freund  4
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Review

Pachychoroid diseases of the macula

Roberto Gallego-Pinazo et al. Med Hypothesis Discov Innov Ophthalmol. 2014 Winter.

Abstract

Advances in optical coherence tomography have enabled a better appreciation of the role of pathologic choroidal changes in a variety of retinal disease. A "pachychoroid" (pachy-[prefix]: thick) is defined as an abnormal and permanent increase in choroidal thickness often showing dilated choroidal vessels and other structural alterations of the normal choroidal architecture. Central serous chorioretinopathy is just one of several pachychoroid-related macular disorders. This review summarizes the current state of knowledge of the pachycoroid spectrum and the hallmark features seen with multimodal imaging analysis of these entities.

Keywords: Central serous chorioretinopathy; Macula; Pachychoroid Diseases.

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Figures

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Figure 1.
Forty year-old man with typical CSC
Figure 2
Figure 2
Morphologic changes identified in the OCT images of cases with PPE
Figure 3
Figure 3
Fifty-three-year-old man with typical changes of pachychoroid neovasculopathy
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