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angioid streak |
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angioid streak Ophthalmology Any of number of minute interruptions of the elastic tissue of the retina, which appear as peripapillary, gray–in non-whites to red-brown–whites, linear striations radiating from the optic fundus along
stress lines or toward the equator in an abnormal Bruch's membrane;1⁄2 occur in Pts with pseudoxanthoma elasticum; ASs also occur in fundi rendered brittle by calcium–tumor-related calcinosis or heavy
metal–eg, lead; ASs also occur in acromegaly, abetalioproteinemia, DM, hemochromatosis, hemolytic anemia, hypercalcinosis, hyperphosphatasia, ITP, myopia, neurofibromatosis, Paget's disease of bone, senile elastosis, sickle cell anemia,
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| There are several other conditions that occur in relatively
young patients, such as Ocular Histoplasmosis and Angioid Streaks, in
which breaks in Bruch's membrane occur and are complicated by
subfoveal choroidal neovascularization. |
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