Retinal lesion due to an obstetrical traumatism: a case report

The authors report a case of unilateral, stable, localized, and well-circum scribed choriocapillaris atrophy associated with retinal pigment epithelium dispersion and atrophy. The anterior segment was normal. Facial examinatio n revealed a homolateral malar hypoplasia. The other eye was normal. The el ectrophysiologic study did not confirm pigmentary degeneration of the retin a. The patient's history included a difficult delivery using obstetrical fo rceps. The authors review the main ocular lesions secondary to birth trauma . In this case, they favored a traumatic chorioretinal lesion secondary to an obstetrical traumatism. In this context, progressive facial hemiatrophy is the main differential diagnosis.