Background: Until now, Schnabel's cavernous optic nerve atrophy (SCONA) has solely been a histopathological diagnosis exhibiting variable degrees of optic nerve (ON) atrophy with characteristic cavernous spaces filled with acid mucopolysaccharides. We report the first correlation of histopathologic findings with spectral domain-optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) imaging in SCONA.
Methods: We examined the eye of an index patient with histopathologically identified SCONA who had undergone multimodal imaging before enucleation for iris ring melanoma.