Multimodal Imaging of... Klin Monatsbl Augenheilkd hamartoma or the splenic hamartoma. The exact incidence of retinal astrocytic hamartoma (RAH) is not well known, but it is estimated at one case per 100000 births per year [1]. The astrocytic hamartoma is a neuroglial tissue and produces astrocytes within the optic nerve [2], and consequently it often appears within papillary region. Congenital...

purpose: to report multiple astrocytic hamartomas in a patient with tuberous sclerosis (ts). patient and findings: a 16-year-old girl with ts without any ocular complaint was referred for ophthalmologic examination. she had papular rash on her face and other skin lesions elsewhere in the body which were specific for ts. multiple well-circumscribed elevated lesions characteristic of astrocytic h...

Routine ophthalmoscopic examination of an asymptomatic, otherwise healthy 63 year old woman revealed a one and a half optic disc diameter sized lesion in the peripheral retina of the right eye (fig 1). The lesion was a greyish white raised nodular mass with patchy calcification overlying the blood vessels on the surface of the retina. The lesion looked more prominent when red-free light was use...

AIM To report photographically the evolution of an astrocytic hamartoma of the left optic nerve head over a 2-year follow-up in a patient with retinitis pigmentosa. METHODS A 14-year-old boy was seen in the medical retina clinic with a 3-year history of night blindness. Best corrected visual acuity was 6/18 in both eyes. Colour vision was normal in both eyes and confrontation fields showed pe...

symptomatic retinal astrocytic hamartomaswouldhavebeentreatmentby laser, which has the undesirable adverse effect of thermal destruction of theneurosensoryretina.Delayoftreatment,however,couldhaveresultedin vitreous hemorrhage, a possible late complicationofgrowingretinalhamartomas. Our case demonstrates the successfuloutcomeofa symptomatic astrocytic hamartoma after 1 session of PDT that resul...