CLINICAL COMMUNICATION Multicolour imaging features in photic maculopathy Clin Exp Optom 2020 DOI:10.1111/cxo.13090 Ramesh Venkatesh MS Arpitha Pereira DNB MRCS (Ed) Vivek Singh MS Sajjan Sangai MS Naresh Kumar Yadav FRCS DO Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, Rajaji Nagar, India E-mail: vramesh80@yahoo.com Submitted: 3 March 2020 Revised: 21 April 2020 Accepted for publication: 21 April 2020 Key words: en face optical coherence tomography, multicolour, photic maculopathy, solar retinopathy Photic maculopathy, also known as foveomacular retinitis, is the retinal injury induced by direct or indirect exposure to light. This includes prolonged exposure to sunlight, laser, arc-welding, lightning or even to a bright operating microscope light. Retinal damage in photic maculopathy pri- marily occurs due to photochemical injury. 1 Visual symptoms include long-term reduced eyesight, central or paracentral scotomas, Figure 1. Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) images of right eye in a case of arc-welding-related photic retinopathy (case 1). A: SD-OCT image showing focal sub-foveal defect at the retinal pigment epithelium and ellipsoid layers. B: SD- OCT image of the other eye. Figure 2. Multicolour imaging of right eye in a case of arc-welding-related photic retinopathy (case 1). A: Multicolour image of the right eye showing a central dark red dot at the foveal centre (white arrow). B: Infrared reflectance image showing a dark dot in the foveal centre (white arrow). C–D: Green and blue reflectance images are normal. © 2020 Optometry Australia Clinical and Experimental Optometry 2020 1 CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL