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Br J Ophthalmol 1999;83:123 doi:10.1136/bjo.83.1.123b
  • Letter to the Editor

Retinoschisis associated with disc coloboma

  1. KAZUKI HOTTA,
  2. AKITO HIRAKATA,
  3. TETSUO HIDA
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
  1. Kazuki Hotta, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, 6–20- 2 Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181, Japan.
  • Accepted 30 July 1998

Editor,—Among a variety of optic disc anomalies, colobomas and optic nerve pits are known to be closely related.1 Previous studies2 have shown that retinal detachment in eyes with choroidal coloboma is often caused by retinal breaks within the coloboma. However, the pathogenesis of non-rhegmatogenous retinal detachment correlating with optic disc coloboma has not been well defined. Here, we report a case of optic disc and choroidal coloboma associated with an unusual form of macular detachment complicated by retinoschisis.

CASE REPORT

A 35 year old Japanese woman complaining of blurred vision in the left eye was referred to Kyorin University Hospital on 1 October 1996. Her best corrected visual acuity was 20/20 in the right eye and 20/200 in the left. Indirect ophthalmoscopy of the …

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