BILATERAL SPONTANEOUS VITREOUS BASE DETACHMENT IN A FEMALE PATIENT WITH NEUROFIBROMATOSIS TYPE 1

We describe a unique case of bilateral spontaneous vitreous base detachment in a female patient with neurofibromatosis Type 1 and no known history of ocular injury. This serves to add further to the medical literature.

Vitreous base detachments usually occur after significant ocular trauma. There is only one other published case of this occurring spontaneously also in a female patient with neurofibromatosis Type 1.

This suggests a rare association between neurofibromatosis Type 1 and spontaneous detachment of the vitreous base.