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Eye Diseases > Eye Abnormalities > Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous

Preferred term

Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • A developmental ocular anomaly in which the primary VITREOUS BODY and its surrounding hyaloid vasculature failed to regress. It is usually unilateral and characterized by CATARACT; MICROPHTHALMOS (small eyeballs), and retrolenticular fibrovascular tissue. (from Yanoff: Ophthalmology, 2nd ed.)

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Persistent Fetal Vasculature Syndrome
  • Persistent Hyaloid Artery
  • Persistent Hyaloid Vasculature

In other languages

  • French

  • Artère hyaloïde persistante
  • Persistance de l'artère hyaloïde
  • Persistance de la tunique vasculaire du cristallin et du vitré primaire hyperplasiques
  • Persistance de la tunique vasculaire du cristallin et du vitré primitif
  • Persistance du vitré primaire
  • Persistance du vitré primitif
  • PHTVL-PHPV
  • Syndrome de persistance et d'hyperplasie du vitré primitif

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-KWDKVD61-7

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