DEVELOPMENT OF FOCAL CHOROIDAL EXCAVATION IN A CASE OF IDIOPATHIC CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULAR MEMBRANE.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the evolution of focal choroidal excavation in a 17-year-old girl on treatment for a choroidal neovascular membrane over a 6-year follow-up.

METHODS: Review of medical and imaging records of a 17-year-old girl who presented with a choroidal neovascular membrane in her left eye treated with multiple intravitreal antivascular endothelial growth factor injections over a period of 6 years.

RESULTS: The patient developed recurrent episodes of subretinal hemorrhage that were treated with antivascular endothelial growth factor injections. Over the follow-up period, swept source optical coherence tomography through the lesion revealed progressive reduction in size of the choroidal neovascular membrane complex with the development of acquired focal choroidal excavation.