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Living With Familial benign fleck retina

By Dr. Claire Lee, MD · · Ophthalmology

This article from Weyland-Yutani Health System's Ophthalmology service line explains familial benign fleck retina in plain language.

About this topic

Topic: familial benign fleck retina. A retinal disease characterized by a striking pattern of diffuse, yellow-white, fleck-like lesions extending to the far periphery of the retina but with no apparent visual or electrophysiologic deficits that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the PLA2G5 gene on chromosome 1p36.13.

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This article is for general information and does not replace advice from your clinician.