Seltene retinale Anomalie: Die doppelte Papille

Abstract

The findings in our patient demonstrate that a double papilla occurs without a double optic nerve. The smaller papilla occurred in an area of widespread myopic changes of the retina and choroid that we assume the appearance of a pseudopapilla. The site beneath the true papilla in an colobomatous area points to a developmental failure due to an incomplete closure of the optic cleft of the embryo. A secondary ingrow of vessels could have developed into the pseudopapilla during the embryonal period.