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Eye Diseases > Eye Abnormalities > Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous

Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Congenital Abnormalities > Eye Abnormalities > Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous

Preferred term

Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous

Topical Descriptor

Eye Abnormalities

Persistent Fetal Vasculature Syndrome
Persistent Hyaloid Arteries
Persistent Hyaloid Artery
Persistent Hyaloid Vasculature
Persistent Hyaloid Vasculatures

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.)

History note

2008

persistentti hyperplastinen primaarinen lasiainen

Finnish
Persisterande primär glaskropp

Swedish
Kvarvarande hyaloid artär
PHPV
Primär kvarvarande glaskropp

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054514

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