drusen
Sign in to saveAlso known as retinal drusen, Basal laminar drusen
thumb|Macular hard drusen and hard exudates in the right eye of a 65-year-old diabetic woman
Research
4,838 papers- Drusen in AMD from the Perspective of Cholesterol Metabolism and Hypoxic Response.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024
- Autophagy in drusen biogenesis secondary to age-related macular degeneration.Acta ophthalmologica · 2024
- Optic disk drusen.Survey of ophthalmology · 2002
- Differentiating drusen and drusenoid deposits subtypes on multimodal imaging and risk of advanced age-related macular degeneration.Japanese journal of ophthalmology · 2023
- Optic disk drusen in children.Survey of ophthalmology · 2016
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thumb|Macular hard drusen and hard exudates in the right eye of a 65-year-old diabetic woman
Drusen, from the German word for node or geode (singular, "Druse"), are tiny yellow or white accumulations of extracellular material that build up between Bruch's membrane and the retinal pigment epithelium of the eye. The presence of a few small ("hard") drusen is normal with advancing age, and most people over 40 have some hard drusen. However, the presence of larger and more numerous drusen in the macula is a common early sign of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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