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Retinitis Pigmentosa and Allied Disorders

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Inherited Chorioretinal Dystrophies

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There are more than 250 entries with the term retinitis pigmentosa in OMIM. More than half of them describe a systemic disease associated with retinal dystrophy, whether central, peripheral or mixed.

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    Bernard Puech

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, de Pintelaan 185, Ghent, B9000, Belgium

    Jean-Jacques De Laey

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Puech, B., De Laey, JJ. (2014). Retinitis Pigmentosa and Allied Disorders. In: Puech, B., De Laey, JJ., Holder, G. (eds) Inherited Chorioretinal Dystrophies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69466-3_9

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