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Broad lines of pigment radiating from the optic disk and branching in the manner of blood vessels
    Differential Diagnosis[Top] [Nav]
pseudoxanthoma elasticum, Paget disease of bone, sickle cell disease, pituitary tumors, familial hyperphosphatemia with metastatic calcification
    Discussion -- not available online[Top] [Nav]
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  • Look for PXE in all your patients with premature, or not so premature, coronary disease. [102]
  • Shows typical axillary skin condition. [103]
    Footnotes in Print Edition[Top] [Nav]
    (1) Angioid streaks.
  Clarkson JG, Altman RD.   Surv Ophthalmol 1982 Mar-Apr;26(5):235-46.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
    (2) An internist looks at the fundus oculi.
  Sapira JD.   Dis Mon 1984 Nov;30(14):1-64.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
    (3) Physician's Guide to Oculosystemic Diseases.
  Delaney WV. Oradell, NJ: Medical Economics, 1982: 356-358.
    (4) Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 10-1983. Gastrointestinal bleeding with ocular and cutaneous abnormalities.
  N Engl J Med 1983 Mar 10;308(10):579-85.  Pubmed  Similars
    (5) Diagnosis of pseudoxanthoma elasticum by scar biopsy in patients without characteristic skin lesions.
  Lebwohl M, Phelps RG, et al.   N Engl J Med 1987 Aug 6;317(6):347-50.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
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    101.Echocardiographic manifestations in a patient with pseudoxanthoma elasticum.
  Rosenzweig BP, Guarneri E, et al.   Ann Intern Med 1993 Sep 15;119(6):487-90.  Pubmed  Similars
    102.Brief report: occult pseudoxanthoma elasticum in patients with premature cardiovascular disease [see comments].
  Lebwohl M, Halperin J, et al.   N Engl J Med 1993 Oct 21;329(17):1237-9.  Pubmed  Similars
    103.Images in clinical medicine. Pseudoxanthoma elasticum.
  Lebwohl M.   N Engl J Med 1993 Oct 21;329(17):1240.  Pubmed  Similars
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