Mushroom-shaped choroidal hemangioma

Am J Ophthalmol. 1996 Sep;122(3):434-6. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)72076-8.

Abstract

Purpose: We examined the clinicopathologic features of a mushroom-shaped choroidal tumor that originated in the right eye of a 13-year-old girl.

Methods: The clinical, ultrasonographic, and histopathologic features of the enucleated eye were studied.

Results: On clinical examination, the choroidal tumor appeared mushroom-shaped with ultrasonic characteristics of high internal reflectivity and choroidal excavation. The enucleation specimen contained a cavernous hemangioma that extended through Bruch's membrane.

Conclusion: Choroidal hemangioma may extend through Bruch's membrane and be mushroom shaped.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Choroid Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Choroid Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Eye Enucleation
  • Female
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / diagnostic imaging
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Ultrasonography