PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Saurabh Verma
AU  - Vinod Kumar
AU  - Shorya Azad
AU  - Amber Amar Bhayana
AU  - Abhidnya Surve
AU  - Suneel Kumar
AU  - Pulak Agarwal
AU  - Rohan Chawla
AU  - Pradeep Venkatesh
TI  - Focal choroidal excavation: review of literature
AID  - 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2020-316992
DP  - 2021 Aug 01
TA  - British Journal of Ophthalmology
PG  - 1043--1048
VI  - 105
IP  - 8
4099  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/105/8/1043.short
4100  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/105/8/1043.full
SO  - Br J Ophthalmol2021 Aug 01; 105
AB  - Focal choroidal excavation (FCE) is defined as an area of concavity in choroid detected on optical coherence tomography. These are mostly present in macular region without evidence of accompanying scleral ectasia or posterior staphyloma. Though initially considered to be congenital, increasing number of cases have been identified in association with other choroidal pathologies such as central serous choroidopathy, choroidal neovascularisation, polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, choroiditis, choroidal tumours. In this review article, we aim to elaborate on the morphology, pathogenesis and differential diagnosis of FCE and specifically discuss the spectrum of diseases with known association along with the impact of their treatment on FCE