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ANGIOID STREAKS IN THE FUNDUS OCULI, ASSOCIATED WITH PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM

J. GOEDBLOED, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1938;19(1):1-8.

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In the course of the last fifty years various cases of angioid streaks in the ocular fundus have been reported in the literature. In all the cases the fundus showed about the same characteristic picture, consisting of a network of streaks varying in color from reddish to brownish black. As a rule, a more or less complete circular streak surrounds the optic disk at a short distance from its margin. From it mutually allied streaks take their origin ; these run more radially and can be followed up to the peripheral parts of the fundus. They lie behind the retinal, and before the larger choroidal, vessels. No connection has been observed between them and one of these vascular systems. The streaks vary much in breadth, broad and narrow streaks being found together in the same fundus oculi. In general their color depends on the abundance of pigment in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LEYDEN, NETHERLANDS

From the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Leyden.

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