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Subretinal Transplantation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived-retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells into a Large-eyed Model of Geographic Atrophy
Published on: January 22, 2018
[Combined hamartoma of pigment epithelium and retina]
M Munteanu1, Gh Munteanu, Ileana Zolog
1Clinica de Oftalmologie, Timişoara.
Abstract:
This is the description of the case of a 36 year old male, who developed a combined hamartoma of the pigment epithelium and retina in the left eye. The location of the lesion in the macular zone, as well as the peculiar aspect of disease, raised some issues related to differential diagnosis. Attention was paid to the diseases of the posterior pole of eyeball, which, given their aspect of disease, result of a secondary hyperplastic reaction of the EPR, can embody a type of combined pseudohamartoma: retraction syndrome, retinal angiomatosis, pseudohistoplasmosis and others. A 5 years clinical supervision of the patient didn't show major changes.
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