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Coats’ Disease

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Coats’ disease (CD), also known as exudative retinopathy or retinal telangiectasias, can be defined as developmental retinal exudative vasculopathy.

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  1. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1600 NW 10th Ave, Miami, FL, 33136, USA

    Hadi Kaakour

  2. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

    Eric D. Hansen

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  1. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, Florida, USA

    Carlos A. Medina

  2. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, MIAMI, Florida, USA

    Justin H. Townsend

  3. Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Arun D. Singh

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Kaakour, H., Hansen, E.D. (2016). Coats’ Disease. In: Medina, C., Townsend, J., Singh, A. (eds) Manual of Retinal Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20460-4_45

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