Placoid pigment epitheliopathy with retinal vasculitis and papillitis.

Abstract

Attention was drawn by Gass (i968) to a distinctive fundus appearance of numerous, widespread, flat, yellowish-white lesions at the level of the retinal pigment epithelium and choroid, associated with rapid loss of visual function. Gass proposed the descriptive name "acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy" for this condition and noted the spontaneous resolution of the lesions which occurred after several months with improvement in the visual acuity.