BACKGROUND Sensory distortions of body image commonly occur during migraine, seizures, nondominant cortical infarcts and hallucinogen abuse. METHODS We report the case of a 30-year-old woman with paranoid schizophrenia presenting with postpartum onset multimodal sensory distortions in the absence of any neurological disorders or substance use. RESULTS Her symptoms involved persistent facial...

PURPOSE To describe a novel method for the evaluation of metamorphopsia within the central 10 degrees of the visual field in 55 patients with idiopathic macular hole. The test evaluates the interocular disparity between the two eyes in metamorphopsia. METHODS Semicircular test and reference stimuli of variable diameters were used in a binocular test that measured interocular size disparity be...

BACKGROUND Metamorphopsia includes a broad spectrum of visual perceptual distortions, such as alteration of perceived object size or, rarely, altered perception of faces, termed prosopometamorphopsia. CASE REPORT This report describes a patient who complained of metamorphopsia restricted to the center of the face, particularly the lower part of the face (nose and mouth), following infarction ...

purpose: to report a case of butterfly-shaped macular dystrophy. patient and findings: a 34-year-old woman presented with metamorphopsia in both eyes from 2 years ago. visual acuity was 9/10 in right eye and 10/10 in left eye. there was no pathologic finding on slit lamp biomicroscopy and funduscopy other than mild macular retinal pigment epithelium mottling. visual fields and electroretinogram...

purpose: to introduce a patient with best disease and fluctuation in vision and oct changes. case report: a 26-year-old man presented with decreased va in his left eye due to cnv secondary to best disease. va improved after ivb injection. after 3 years he complained of metamorphopsia in his right eye with a decrease in subretinal deposits which improved spontaneously. the same sequence of event...

PURPOSE To report concomitant use of fluorescein angiography (FA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) in a case of pre-existing pseudomacular hole (PMH) and macular choroidal neovascularization (CNV) treated with photodynamic therapy (PDT). METHODS CASE REPORT RESULTS A 63-year-old man who received laser treatment for branch retinal vein occlusion in 1993 developed an asymptomatic ma...