Management of persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous by pars plana vitrectomy.
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Persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous.
Persistant hyperplastic primary vitreous (PHPV) was described in detail as a clinical entity by Reese1 in 1955 in his Jackson Memorial Lecture. Goldberg in his 1997 Jackson Memorial Lecture2 renamed PHPV as persistent fetal vasculature (PFV). PHPV is a pathologic entity resulting from abnormal persistence of the fetal fibrovascular primitive stroma (hyaloid system) of the eye3,4 which should di...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.60.11.756