To report the morphological and clinical features of a case of myopic macular degeneration with large choroidal excavation.
Methods:
A myopic patient underwent multimodal imaging, including optical coherence tomography and fluorescein angiography, over a 8-year follow-up.
Results:
A choroidal excavation was found in left eye, superior to the fovea. The excavation started as a focal choroidal excavation (FCE) and got deeper and larger during the 8-years-long follow-up, thus resulting in a large choroidal excavation (LCE).
Conclusions:
LCE may be the evolution of FCE in highly myopic eyes, further studies are needed to describe the natural history of choroidal excavations in degenerative myopia.
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