Choroidal mass as the first presentation of Erdheim-Chester disease.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe a choroidal mass that proved to be histiocytic choroidal infiltration in Erdheim-Chester disease.

Observations

A 54-years-old Caucasian male presented to our Retina Clinic with a suspect of choroidal melanoma in the left eye. Dilated fundus exam of the left eye showed a yellow-grey lesion along the inferior arcade, with sub-retinal fluid clinically visible. Enhanced depth imaging-OCT (EDI-OCT) showed a dome-shaped choroidal lesion with hyperreflective exudation present between the inner retina and the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). On fundus autofluorescence the lesion appeared to have a diffuse speckled hyper-autofluorescent pattern secondary to the exudative subretinal material. On ultrasound, the lesion appeared hyper-echoic and dome-shaped, with a

SUBMITTER: Pichi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6706652 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature