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Central serous papillopathy
  1. MICHAEL C BRODSKY
  1. Department of Ophthalmology
  2. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
  3. Little Rock, Arkansas
  1. Arkansas Children’s Hospital, 800 Marshall, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202.

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Editor,—Central serous retinopathy is a serous macular detachment that produces central visual loss in one eye. It may occur idiopathically or in conjunction with a pit or coloboma of the optic disc. In idiopathic cases, fluorescein angiography characteristically shows one or more leakage points through which choroidal fluid transgresses the retinal pigment epithelium to enter the subretinal space.1 This report describes a patient who developed a serous retinal detachment extending from the optic disc to the macula which was associated with a discrete angiographic area of capillary leakage within a non-excavated optic disc.

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A 32 year old man awoke with blurred vision in his left eye that had persisted over a 4 day period. He denied pain with eye movement or associated headache. He had a history of poor vision in the …

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