To cite: Bypareddy R, Takkar B, Azad SV, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2016-216984 DESCRIPTION A 45-year-old woman on routine evaluation was found to have coloboma of optic nerve head and two inferior choroidal colobomas (CCs) connected by a bridging retinal tissue in the left eye (figure 1A). Vertical optical coherence tomography (OCT) l...

K lippel-Trénaunay-Weber syndrome (KTWS) is a rare congenital malformation syndrome involving blood and lymphatic vessels as well as disturbed growth of soft tissues and bone. The clinical features can be extremely variable, but most patients exhibit thetriadofcutaneouscapillarymalformation,varicoseveins, and hypertrophy of bone and soft tissue. Thromboembolic events occur at an increased rate ...

Originally received: July 13, 2016. Final revision: December 23, 2016. Accepted: January 5, 2017. Available online: February 14, 2017. Manuscript no. 2016-1470. 1 Sacrocuore Hospital, Verona, Italy. 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Sant’Anna Institute, Brescia, Italy. Financial Disclosure(s): The authors have no proprietary or...

BACKGROUND Congenital macular coloboma is a rare ocular disease that consists of atrophic lesions in the macula with well-circumscribed borders. We report the findings of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) at the fixation point in a case of bilateral macular coloboma. CASE REPORT The subject is a 4-year-old boy. He visited our hospital at age 1 year and 4 months for the eva...

c d Konstantinos Spengos, MD, FESO Department of Neurology, University of Athens Vas. Sofias 82 GR–11528 Athens (Greece) Tel. +30 6946 466 216, Fax +30 210 674 2604 E-Mail [email protected] 3 Lenhart PD, Lambert SR, Newman NJ, et al: Intracranial vascular anomalies in patients with morning glory disk anomaly. Am J Ophthalmol 2006; 142: 644–650. 4 Krishnan C, Roy A, Traboulsi E: Morning glory disk ...

PURPOSE To study the lenticular problems in children presenting at an apex institute. METHODS Retrospective analysis of records (< 14 years) of new lens clinic cases was done. RESULTS Of 1,047 children, 687 were males. Mean age at presentation was 6.35 ± 4.13 years. Developmental cataract was seen in 45.6% and posttraumatic cataract in 29.7% of patients. Other abnormalities were cataract wi...

whole-body 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose PET (FDG-PET) scan revealed 2 isolated hypermetabolic foci in the left upper pulmonary lobe and the left hilum, while the eye lesion was not detected (Figure 3). The patient received a short course of radiotherapy to the right eye. An upper-left lung lobectomy was performed and confirmed a primary adenocarcinoma (2 cm diameter; T1 N2 M1, stage IV). A chemoth...