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Pseudoxanthoma elasticum confirmed by genetic analysis but not by skin biopsy: a case report and review of the literature.
Bulletin de la Societe belge d'ophtalmologie - 1 Jan 2013
Van Loey S, Leys A
Abstract excerpt
In patients with angioid streaks, additional investigations are useful to identify underlying systemic disease, unless age and short peripapillary streaks are indicative of senile streaks as an isolated abnormality. In middle-aged or young adults with angioid streaks and no obvious systemic disease, the possibility of a hemoglobulinopathy or pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) as etiologic entities should be...
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