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Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Genetic Diseases, Inborn > Eye Diseases, Hereditary > Choroideremia
Eye Diseases > Eye Diseases, Hereditary > Choroideremia
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Genetic Diseases, Inborn > Genetic Diseases, X-Linked > Choroideremia
Eye Diseases > Uveal Diseases > Choroid Diseases > Choroideremia

Preferred term

Choroideremia  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Dystrophies, Progressive Tapetochoroidal
  • Dystrophy, Progressive Tapetochoroidal
  • Progressive Tapetochoroidal Dystrophies
  • Progressive Tapetochoroidal Dystrophy
  • Tapetochoroidal Dystrophies, Progressive
  • Tapetochoroidal Dystrophy, Progressive

Note

  • of the eye, not of the choroid plexus: progressive degen in male, nonprogressive in female

Scope note

  • An X chromosome-linked abnormality characterized by atrophy of the choroid and degeneration of the retinal pigment epithelium causing night blindness.

History note

  • 90

In other languages

  • korioideremia

    Finnish

  • choroideremia
  • korioidean kato
  • koroideremia
  • silmän suonikalvon kato
  • suonikalvokato
  • Koroideremi

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015794

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