[Exudative senile maculopathy, clinical picture, pathogenesis, prognosis and therapy (author's transl)].

From the literature and our own experience it is evident that choriogenic subretinal vascular proliferation is the most important symptom of senile exudative maculopathy. Prior to proliferation a certain percentage of cases develops an isolated detachment of the retinal pigment epithelium. However, there are cases where already in the predisciform stage vascular proliferations are proved histologically. Photocoagulation can be applied to isolated pigment epithelial detachment, to cases with beginning vascular proliferation, and to late stages in order to accelarate the final scaring.