Authors
Doga A.V., Volodin P.L., Pedanova E.K., Poroshina M.A.
The S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution, Moscow
Abstract
Rationale: A clinical case of idiopathic multifocal choroiditis, complicated by the bilateral inflammatory subretinal neovascular membrane is described. It was diagnosed after six months after the initial examination. Systemic therapy with glucocorticosteroids was started after six months after the diagnosis. Macrophage-like cells are presented for the first time during the idiopathic multifocal choroiditis.
Keywords: multifocal choroiditis, optical coherence tomography, myopic refraction, inflammatory subretinal neovascular membrane.
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