Before the advent of OCT, FA was the standard tool used to diagnosis macular edema. The finding of a ''petaloid'' pattern of late leakage is classic for the diagnosis of cystoid macular edema.

The following is a summary of “Microcystoid macular edema in epiretinal membrane: not a retrograde maculopathy,” published in ...

OCT has become the most common way to image ME. It represents morphologic characteristics of ME in detail, allows the quantitative measurements of ME, and depicts the integrity of the ...