Focal choroidal excavation associated with focal retinochoroiditis.

PURPOSE: To describe detailed spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings for two patients with focal choroidal excavation (FCE) associated with focal retinochoroiditis.

CASE REPORT: Three eyes from two patients with FCE associated with focal retinochoroiditis were evaluated by funduscopy, fluorescence angiography, indocyanine green angiography, and spectral-domain OCT during follow-up. Both patients with focal retinochoroiditis developed new FCE after oral steroid treatment and two eyes showed regression of the FCE during the follow-up. Both eyes from one patient transformed from the conforming to the nonconforming type and neither of the eyes were stable during the follow-up. Ultimately, all eyes exhibited the conforming-type FCE.

CONCLUSIONS

Focal choroidal excavation can be seen as a tomographic phenotype after the treatment of focal retinochoroiditis. Spectral-domain OCT was useful for detecting the development of FCE after the treatment and for observing FCE regression.