Bilateral Coats' response in a female patient leads to diagnosis of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy

Optometry

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 72-76

  Bass, Sherry J ^a   Sherman, Jerome ^a,b   Giovinazzo, Vincent ^a,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Pathology   (United States)

^c VITREOUS RETINA MACULA CONSULTANTS OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Coats' disease; Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy; Optos fluorescein angiography; Retinal exudation; Retinal telangiectasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; RETINA TUMOR; RETINAL TELANGIECTASIA; TANDEM REPEAT;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GENETIC TESTING; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINAL TELANGIECTASIS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 79151470602     PISSN: 15291839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optm.2010.07.028     Document Type: Article

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