Course: Foveal Pseudoduplication in a Young Male Patient
CME Credits: 1.00
Released: 2024-01-18
An apparently normal young male with visual acuity 20/20 OU (spherical equivalent, -2.50 diopters in both eyes) presented for a routine evaluation. The patient was noted to have blunted fovealike depressions (1 in the right eye and 2 in left eye) temporal to the normal foveal depression in both eyes. On swept-source optical coherence tomography (OCT), these areas showed thinning but not complete absence of the inner retinal layers (Figure, yellow arrowheads). On OCT angiography, avascularity similar to the normal fovea was seen (Figure inset, yellow arrowheads). These anomalous depressions were termed pseudofoveae as per a prior report.1 Although foveal duplication can be seen in birds, specifically raptors, it has not been observed in primates.2
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