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Birdshot Chorioretinopathy

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Intraocular Inflammation

Abstract

Birdshot chorioretinopathy (BCR) can be defined as a chronic, bilateral, inflammatory condition, which affects the posterior segment of the eye with involvement of the choroid and retinal vessels.

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  1. Department of Medical Retina Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK

    Carlos E. Pavesio MD, FRCOpth

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Pitie-Salpetriere University Hospital, 83 boulevard de l’Hopital, 75013, Paris, France

    Phuc Lehoang MD, PhD

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    Manfred Zierhut

  2. Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eyes Hospital, Department of Medical Retina, UCL, London, United Kingdom

    Carlos Pavesio

  3. School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Hokkaido University Graduate, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

    Shigeaki Ohno

  4. University of Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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Pavesio, C.E., Lehoang, P. (2016). Birdshot Chorioretinopathy. In: Zierhut, M., Pavesio, C., Ohno, S., Orefice, F., Rao, N. (eds) Intraocular Inflammation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75387-2_83

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