Cavernous hemangioma with cone dysfunction

Ophthalmologica. 1996;210(6):367-71. doi: 10.1159/000310749.

Abstract

We report a 13-year-old male who complained of strabismus and low visual acuity in the right eye. Saccular aneurysms filled with dark-colored blood were noted in the upper nasal quadrant of the right fundus. Ishihara color plates and Lanthony's new color test revealed a red-green color defect. Cone response and 30-Hz flicker responses were nearly absent. Cavernous hemangioma of the retina is a rare vascular hamartoma; the associated findings show cone dysfunction concomitant with this peripheral lesion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Color Perception Tests
  • Color Vision Defects / complications*
  • Color Vision Defects / physiopathology
  • Electroretinography
  • Eye Neoplasms / complications*
  • Eye Neoplasms / pathology
  • Eye Neoplasms / physiopathology
  • Fluorescein Angiography
  • Fundus Oculi
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / complications*
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / pathology
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / pathology*
  • Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / physiopathology
  • Retinal Diseases / complications*
  • Retinal Diseases / pathology
  • Retinal Diseases / physiopathology
  • Strabismus / complications
  • Visual Acuity