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Case Reports
. 2016 Jun;20(3):258-60.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2015.11.016. Epub 2016 Apr 7.

Green-laser induced maculopathy in a 15-year-old boy

William Yan  1 , Rahul Chakrabarti  2 , Matthew Little  2 , Susan M Carden  3
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Green-laser induced maculopathy in a 15-year-old boy

William Yan et al. J AAPOS. 2016 Jun.

Abstract

We report the case a 15-year-old boy who presented with retinopathy caused by a green-diode (class IIIB) laser. The patient was followed over a period of 8 weeks. Visual acuity on day 1 was 6/7.5, with central scotoma in the right eye, and 6/5 in the left eye. Macular optical coherence tomography of the right eye day 1 showed focal subfoveal disruption of the photoreceptor ellipsoid and myoid zones extending through the external limiting membrane to the outer nuclear layer. At week 8, visual acuity was 6/6 right eye and 6/5 in the left eye. Disruption of the ellipsoid and myoid layers, though still present, had improved.

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