Phenotypic similarities between Stargardt's flavimaculatus and pattern dystrophies.

doi:10.1111/j.1442-9071.1992.tb00935.x

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Phenotypic similarities between Stargardt's flavimaculatus and pattern dystrophies.

Australian and New Zealand journal of ophthalmology - 1 Aug 1992

Lopez P F, Aaberg T M

Abstract excerpt

Some heredomacular diseases share ophthalmoscopic and morphologic similarities despite being nosologically distinct. In part, this may arise from pathologic reaction patterns such as lipopigment accumulation and drusen deposition which are common to a variety of disorders of the photoreceptor--re...

Topics

Diagnosis, Differential
Fluorescein Angiography
Fundus Oculi
Humans
Phenotype
Pigment Epithelium of Eye
Retinal Degeneration

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