Multimodal imaging in peripapillary congenital hypertrophy of retinal pigment epithelium.

Abstract

Congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) is a benign congenital hamartoma of the RPE of generally indolent course. It is usually located outside the posterior pole, with peripapillary presentation being a very rare entity (less than 1% of CHRPE cases). It is a pigmented lesion that can evolve into a heterogeneous pigmented lesion with gaps in its interior and a halo of depigmentation. We present the case of a 52-year-old patient with a peripapillary CHRPE in the left eye followed in our service for more than 12 years through a multimodal imaging study. The patient maintained a visual acuity of 1.0, showing a small increase in the size of the atrophic areas within the lesion. No complications were observed. The right eye did not present any alteration.