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Hutchinson's disease
Also known as:
Hutchinson-Tay choroiditis
Tay's choroiditis
Tay's disease
Associated persons:
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson
Warren Tay
Description:
A senile degeneration of the choroid with gradual and progressive visual loss, marked by yellow spots around the macula lutea, resulting from atheromatous changes. Both sexes affected. Etiology unknown. Possibly, autosomal dominant inheritance.
Bibliography:
- J. Hutchinson:
Illustrations of Clinical Surgery. London, J. Churchill, 1875, pp 49-52.
- W. Tay:
Symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant.
Transactions of the Ophthalmological Societies of the United Kingdom, 1881, 1: 55-57.
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