Ophthalmoscopic visualization of the inferior ophthalmic vein through a chorioretinal coloboma.

PURPOSE/

METHODS

In a patient with a coloboma of the optic nerve, inferior retina and choroid, and deep portions of the sclera, a retrobulbar vessel moved irregularly relative to the retinal vessels, which moved contiguously with the posterior globe.

RESULTS/

CONCLUSION

Fluorescein angiography showed the retrobulbar vessel filling slightly later than overlying retinal vessels. We conclude that the retrobulbar vessel was a vein situated inferiorly to the optic nerve.