MULTIFOCAL CHOROIDITIS AND HERPES-ZOSTER OPHTHALMICUS - A CASE-REPORT

We describe a patient with multifocal choroidal lesions affecting the midperipheral fundus, with an atrophic and scattered punched-out pale aspect. Lesions were discovered seven months after an ipsilateral herp es tester ophthalmicus. Fluorescein angiography findings exhibited a d elay of choroidal injection and late moderate staining during the veno us phase. The etiological arguments refer to a previous herpes tester infection. The pathogeny would involve an occlusion of posterior cilia ry arteries, lesions of posterior ciliary nerves and/or direct cytopat hogenic involvement of chorioretina by neurotropic virus front ciliary ganglion.