Journal article

Publication year: 2016

Pages: 160-163

Journal: Ophthalmologe

Volume number: 113

Issue number: 2

ISSN: 0941-293X

eISSN: 1433-0423

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00347-015-0065-z

Publisher: Springer

Abstract: 

Case report of a 6-year-old boy with bilateral choroidal osteoma.

The patient was followed up for the next 6 years and during this period bilateral tumor progression was observed. In one eye a staphyloma posticum developed in the area of the osteoma which led to secondary anisometric myopia.

If undetected, this rare complication can lead to anisometric amblyopia; therefore, repeated cycloplegic refractometry is advisable in children with choroidal osteoma.

Harvard Citation style: Heichel, J., Bredehorn-Mayr, T., Stuhltraeger, U., Kunert, K., Jaeger, M. and Lorenz, B. (2016) Manifestation of bilateral choroidal osteoma in childhood. Progressive myopia due to staphyloma posticum, Ophthalmologe, 113(2), pp. 160-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00347-015-0065-z

APA Citation style: Heichel, J., Bredehorn-Mayr, T., Stuhltraeger, U., Kunert, K., Jaeger, M., & Lorenz, B. (2016). Manifestation of bilateral choroidal osteoma in childhood. Progressive myopia due to staphyloma posticum. Ophthalmologe. 113(2), 160-163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00347-015-0065-z