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Acute traumatic maculopathy

Omar Lezrek, Mounir Lezrek

PAMJ. 2014; 18:133. Published 11 Jun 2014 | DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2014.18.133.4595

Acute traumatic maculopathy
A 14-year old child presented to the emergency department (ED), complaining of blurry vision 1 hour after he was victim of a blunt trauma of his right eye. Initially, visual acuity was Counting Fingers at 2m and 20/20 in the left eye, Slit lamp examination was normal; Funduscopy of the right eye revealed gray-white discoloration of macula and lower retina in posterior pole (A); Optical coherence tomography showed an increase in reflectivity of the inner and outer segment junction (B); 1 week later, the visual acuity improved to 20/25 in the right eye without any treatment.

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Omar Lezrek, Mohammed V University Souissi, Faculty of Medicine, Department A of Ophthalmology, Rabat, Morocco (ramosoft25@gmail.com)

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