Retinal detachment at the posterior pole.

Case Reports Case 1, a male, aged 52, had had a right macular haemorrhage about 20 years previously, and for a period of 4 months had noticed deterioration of the visual acuity of the left eye. The right eye showed a posterior staphyloma and advanced macular degeneration typical of myopia; the left eye had a central retinal detachment occupying the area of a posterior staphyloma (Fig. 1). The visual acuity was 3/60 eccentrically in the right eye with -18 D sph., -3 D cyl., axis 90°, and 6/36 in the left eye with 20 D sph. No hole was found. The inset to Fig. 1 is a diagram of the lower edge of the lesion seen with the fundus slit-lamp. There was no detachment of the vitreous.