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Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Serpiginous choroidopathy

Serpiginous choroidopathy

Category(ies): Uveitis
Contributor: Jesse Vislisel, MD
Photographer: Brice Critser, CRA (Figure A, B); Antoinette Venckus, CRA (Figure C, D)

Serpiginous choroidopathy is a chronic, recurrent, typically bilateral inflammatory disease of the chorioretinal pigmented epithelium. It is characterized by atrophic scars with active, yellow-gray borders, often extending in a serpent-like pattern from the optic disc. These photographs show the progression of the disease over a 10-year time period (the most recent photographs are located on the bottom). To read more about this serpiginous choroidopathy and this patient, see the full case report