Objectives: To clarify the clinical and angiographic characteristics of idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (IPCV) and its natural course.
Methods: Descriptive, prospective, consecutive case series of patients with presumed IPCV seen at Fort-de-France Hospital Center (French West Indies) between January and June 2006. All participants underwent complete eye examination and fluorescein and indocyanine green (ICG) angiography.
We report four cases referred to the Ophthalmologic Department of the University Hospital Center of Fort de France for the therapeutic management of a conjunctival malignant tumor. All cases reported involved conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma. All tumors were unilateral, one was localized, another was recurrent, one occurred in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and the last one was seen at the late stage of massive locoregional invasion.
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