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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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