[Vitelliform macular degeneration (Best's disease) (author's transl)].

The report concerns an 11-year-old boy with a fresh chorioretinal lesion in the macula of the right eye and an "egg-yolk-like" cyst in the left eye. The contents of the cyst sedimented 4 weeks later in the manner of a pseudo-hypopyon. The typical findings in the macula of the one eye permitted the diagnosis: vitelline macular degeneration, with the full picture of the intact cyst (disc) on the left and the scarred area following the degenerative change of the cyst on the right. In vitelline macular degeneration, we are dealing with the same condition (Brayley and Spivey, Remky, W. Jaeger) as Best's juvenile macular degeneration.