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| OPHTHALMIC IMAGE |
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| Year : 2022 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 628 |
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A well in the eye – A case of a peripappilary staphyloma
Asmita Mahajan
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
| Date of Web Publication | 13-Apr-2022 |
Correspondence Address:
Asmita Mahajan
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi - 110 029
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_2603_21
How to cite this article:
Mahajan A. A well in the eye – A case of a peripappilary staphyloma. Indian J Ophthalmol Case Rep 2022;2:628 |
A 25-year-old male presented with a history of poor vision in the left eye since childhood and inward deviation of the eye. On examination, visual acuity was FCCF PR accurate. The fundus showed a posterior staphyloma with a dysplastic disc in the staphyloma. The surrounding retina showed atrophic changes.
Peripapillary staphyloma is an extremely rare, nonhereditary condition, in which the optic disc is relatively normal and sits at the base of a surrounding staphyloma whose walls as well as adjacent choroid and retinal pigment epithelium may be atrophic.[1]
It is generally unilateral and is accompanied by poor vision, although a bilateral case with normal visual acuity has been reported. Its exact pathophysiology is unknown. However, the clinical features of peripapillary staphyloma are suggestive of diminished peripapillary structural support, resulting from incomplete differentiation of the posterior sclera from neural crest cells during gestation.[2]
It should be differentiated from its differentials that include morning glory disc anomaly (MGDA) and optic nerve coloboma due to the associations of syndromes of the latter. This avoids unnecessary neuroimaging.
The appearance of MGDA is very characteristic with a central glial tuft, retinal vessels that exit in a radial fashion from the enlarged posterior scleral opening where the optic nerve tissue exits the globe, and a variable degree of peripapillary pigmentation.[3]
Optic nerve coloboma, on the other hand, appears as a white excavation that typically involves the inferior portion of the nerve and can extend inferiorly into the choroid and retina. Often, the superior rim of the optic nerve is spared.[4]
Here, we present an ophthalmic image of an eye with a dysplastic optic disc in a posterior staphyloma, likely peripapillary staphyloma [Figure 1]. It appears like a “well in the eye.”
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