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. 2007 Feb 21;91(9):1152–1159. doi: 10.1136/bjo.2006.112318

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Figure 3 A 72‐year‐old man (patient 24) was referred to our clinic with a one‐month history of decreased visual acuity in the left eye (OS). At the initial visit, his visual acuity was 20/100 OS. Funduscopic examination of the left eye reveals a reddish‐orange nodule (arrow) and subretinal greyish material with subretinal haemorrhage in the posterior pole (A). Indocyanine green angiography (IA) reveals a branching vascular network terminating in an extrafoveal polypoidal lesion (B). Fluorescein angiography (FA) shows subretinal classic choroidal neovascularisation (CNV), which is separate from the polypoidal lesion (C, early phase; D, late phase). A sectional image with optical coherence tomography (OCT) along the white line shows an elevation of retinal pigment epithelium (short arrow) and subretinal material with moderate reflectivity (long arrow) (E). He was treated with photodynamic therapy (PDT) to the left eye. The yellow dotted line indicates the laser irradiation spot at the first treatment. Three treatments with PDT were performed to the persisted classic CNV. Fundus photograph at nine months after the first PDT shows subretinal greyish material (F). IA shows no polypoidal lesions (G). FA shows persisted subfoveal classic CNV (H, early phase; I, late phase). An OCT image along the white line shows persisted moderate reflectivity subfoveally (arrow) (J). His visual acuity was 20/100 OS; this patient was reported in a previous article.29