Burggraaff, MC;
de Vries-Knoppert, WAEJ;
Petzold, A;
(2017)
Prefoveal floaters as a differential diagnosis to optic neuritis: "mouches dormantes".
Acta Neurologica Belgica
, 117
(3)
pp. 703-705.
10.1007/s13760-017-0810-y.
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Abstract
This case series describes a new optical coherence tomography (OCT) specific observation relevant to the differential diagnosis of patients with suspected optic neuritis. A tiny prefoveal floater, only detectable by OCT, was found responsible for the symptoms in three patients, one of whom had been referred with unilateral delayed visual evoked potentials. This case series suggests that with increased use of OCT in routine clinical care, entoptic phenomena can be demonstrated as a relevant differential diagnosis to optic neuritis. Patients should be explained the benign nature of their symptoms.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Prefoveal floaters as a differential diagnosis to optic neuritis: "mouches dormantes" |
| Location: | Italy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13760-017-0810-y |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13760-017-0810-y |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Endoptic phenomena, Floater, Mouche, Optic neuritis, Optical coherence tomography |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1560602 |
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