Optic disc drusen, angioid streaks, and mottled fundus in various combinations in a Sicilian family

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 771-776

  Volti, Salvatore Li ^a   Avitabili, Teresio ^a   Volti, Giovanni Li ^a   Meloni, Ilaria ^b   Forabosco, Paola ^c   Marano, Filippo ^a   Bianca, Sebastiano ^a   Renieri, Alessandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOID STREAK; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EYE DISEASE; EYE FUNDUS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; ITALY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; PENETRANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0036951816     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0534-3     Document Type: Article

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