UNUSUAL DISCIFORM RETINAL LESION WITH HETEROTOPIA MACULAE

Abstract

The interesting features of the case under consideration lie in the unique appearance of a unilateral fundus lesion and in the malplacement of the macula relative to a normally positioned nerve head. REPORT OF A CASE The subject, H. W., aged 27, an otherwise healthy man, stated that the vision in the right eye had always been poor. He had been informed by his mother that obstetric instruments were employed in the course of his birth and that the attending physician had requested consultation with an ophthalmologist because he had noted something wrong with the right eye of the infant. The findings of the oculist were obscured in doubt, but the patient was convinced that trauma to the eye had occasioned the specialist's visit. It is extremely unlikely that a village practitioner would have noted the retinal lesion, and it does not seem probable that he would have insisted on