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torpedo_maculopathy [2025/07/14 00:34] Scott Larsontorpedo_maculopathy [2025/07/14 00:46] (current) Scott Larson
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 ====Characteristics==== ====Characteristics====
-  * Single oval shaped lesions +  * Single oval shaped lesion of the RPE
   * Located close to the fovea   * Located close to the fovea
     * usually temporal and unilateral     * usually temporal and unilateral
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   * Causes a scotoma   * Causes a scotoma
     * Not associated with other vision loss     * Not associated with other vision loss
 +  * OCT
 +    * cleft of missing RPE or thin abnormal RPE
 +    * degeneration of photoreceptors and loss of outer segments
 +  * Fundus autofluorescence
 +    * dark in the area of the lesion
 +    * no leakage
 +  * Fluorescein angiogram
 +    * hyper-fluorescence 
   * In isolation not associated with other disease   * In isolation not associated with other disease
   * Can occur with other pigmented lesions typically seen in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis   * Can occur with other pigmented lesions typically seen in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis