Open AccessRetinal meteor
Author(s) -
Ramesh Venkatesh,
Prachi Gurav,
PrachiAbhishek Dave,
Sankhadeep Roy
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/ijo.ijo_68_17
Subject(s) - medicine , fluorescein angiography , retinal , meteor (satellite) , ophthalmology , retina , angiography , optometry , radiology , optics , astronomy , physics
We describe a case of a 65-year old man diagnosed with retinal vasoproliferative tumour secondary to posterior uveitis. The fluorescein angiography shows an interesting meteor-like leak emanating from the tumour and rising towards the superior retina in the later frames of the angiogram. Pictorially, we call it the "Retinal Meteor" and also describe the possible mechanism for this pattern of leakage.