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X-Linked Retinoschisis.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Sept 2023
Ku Cristy A, Wei Lisa W, Sieving Paul A
Abstract excerpt
X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) is an inherited vitreoretinal dystrophy causing visual impairment in males starting at a young age with an estimated prevalence of 1:5000 to 1:25,000. The condition was first observed in two affected brothers by Josef Haas in 1898 and is clinically diagnosed by characteristic intraretinal cysts arranged in a petaloid "spoke-wheel" pattern centered in the macula. When clinical...
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