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Central Serous Chorioretinopathy/Choroidopathy

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Central angiospastic retinopathy; Diffuse retinal pigment epitheliopathy; Idiopathic central serous retinopathy/chorioretinopathy

Definition, Pathogenesis, and Etiology

Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) is characterized by a serous detachment of the neurosensory retina that usually affects the macula and the posterior pole (Fig. 1). On fundus fluorescein angiogram (FFA), there is a classic “smokestack” or “ink blot” pattern of choroidal leakage in a proportion of patients. CSC commonly affects young men aged between 30 and 50 years of age. The prevalence of CSC is 9.9 cases per 100,000 in men and 1.7 cases per 100,000 in women.

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Spectral domain OCT image (right) showing a CSC with an underlying RPE breakdown which corresponds to the area of leakage on FFA (white arrow)

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  1. Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore

    Anna C. S. Tan

  2. Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

    Anna C. S. Tan, Gemmy Cheung & Tien Yin Wong

  3. Duke-NUS Medical School, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Gemmy Cheung & Tien Yin Wong

  4. Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore

    Gemmy Cheung & Tien Yin Wong

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  1. Dept of Ophthal & Optometry,AKH, Medical University of Wien Dept of Ophthal & Optometry,AKH, Wien, Austria

    Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main Department of Ophthalmology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Thomas Kohnen

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Tan, A.C.S., Cheung, G., Wong, T.Y. (2014). Central Serous Chorioretinopathy/Choroidopathy. In: Schmidt-Erfurth, U., Kohnen, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35951-4_1074-1

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