Progressive visual loss in a young adult with a family history
Clinical history
- Urgency
- Urgent
A 26-year-old with a family history of cerebellar tumours has months of progressive visual loss in one eye.
- Examination
- A bullous detachment visible without a fundus lens, dilated feeder vessels, exudate and neovascular tissue.
Presentation typical of this diagnosis, written for teaching. The source dataset provides the image and its label only, with no accompanying clinical record.
The study opens when you begin.
Read the history first and decide what you expect to find. Committing to an expectation before you look is most of what separates interpreting from noticing.
Step 1 of 2 · Read the history
Study: Slit-lamp photograph
Describe what you see and give the most likely diagnosis. This study has no single spot to mark, so the answer comes next.