Multimodal imaging of atypical acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis mimicking a white dot syndrome

Publication Date

2019

Journal Title

Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina

Abstract

© 2019 Slack Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. As rates of infectious syphilis continue to rise in the U.S., it is important to be familiar with known manifestations of ocular syphilis as well as report presentations not previously described in the literature. Here, the authors report a case of a 49-year-old myopic woman presenting with bilateral white dots characteristic of a white dot syndrome; these white dots were not evident on slit-lamp examination and became obvious on fundus autofluorescence. She tested positive and was successfully treated for syphilis. This case demonstrates that ocular syphilis can present with white dots and should be on the differential diagnosis of white dot syndromes.

Volume Number

50

Issue Number

2

Pages

E52 - E55

Document Type

Article

Status

Faculty

Facility

School of Medicine

Primary Department

Ophthalmology

PMID

30768231

DOI

10.3928/23258160-20190129-20

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