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C. Erik van Nouhuys, MD
Nijmegen, Holland

Arch Ophthalmol. 1984;102(6):824.

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To the Editor.

—In their article in the October ARCHIVES, Feldman et al¹ confirmed the extreme variability of clinical signs of autosomal dominant exudative vitreoretinopathy. Their findings agree with observations of other recent studies of (autosomal) dominant exudative vitreoretinopathy.^2,3

Feldman et al¹ reported the occurrence of intraretinal white deposits. We observed similar lesions and agree that these lesions are almost confined to the avascular areas of the peripheral retina.⁴ Biomicroscopically, these lesions seem to be gliotic rather than exudative.

In our study, intraretinal and subretinal exudates were found in only 16 of 141 eyes with dominant exudative vitreoretinopathy.⁴ The disease seems to be not so exudative as its denomination suggests.

We concluded from our study that dominant exudative vitreoretinopathy is a developmental disorder of the retinal vascular system. The disease has not the characteristics of a slowly progressive vitreoretinal degeneration. The developmental disorder probably affects . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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