In classic familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) adenomas become malignant. Congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium (CHRPE) is a retinal pigmented lesion and is the earliest and most common potential extraintestinal manifestation of FAP. This review aims to summarize and analyse all of the published data on CHRPE in patients with classic FAP and then ascertain whether these patients should undergo a relatively cheap and non‐invasive dilated fundus examination to screen for CHRPE. Adhering to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses guidelines our database search identified 102 relevant articles of which 13 were selected for further analysis. The percentage of FAP patients with CHRPE was found to be 80.00%, whereas the percentage of at‐risk patients with CHRPE was 31.12%. Despite various statistically significant findings, CHRPE alone cannot be used as a surrogate for diagnosing FAP in those with a positive family history. The authors advocate a combined approach of eye examinations, colonoscopy and genetic testing.
Automated registration of optic disc images by different modalities is a feasible option for clinical application. All 3 methods provided useful levels of alignment, but the NRFNMI technique consistently outperformed the others and is recommended as a practical approach to the automated registration of multimodal disc images.
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