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Abstract
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.)
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- Persistent Fetal Vasculature Syndrome
- Persistent Hyaloid Artery
- Persistent Hyaloid Vasculature
- Persistent Hyaloid Arteries
- Persistent Hyaloid Vasculatures
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2008
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- Infant, Newborn, Diseases (1966-2007)
- Vitreous Body (1966-2007)
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- National Library of Medicine. Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054514. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054514
- Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_fetal_vasculature
- Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7170412