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Acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE) is a term introduced by Gass in 1968 to describe a syndrome of multiple plaque-like post-equatorial, circumscribed, flat, gray-whitish, subretinal lesions involving the retinal pigment epithelium associated with visual loss.
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Neri, P. et al. (2016). Acute Posterior Multifocal Placoid Pigment Epitheliopathy. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Herbort Jr., C. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2506-5_64-1
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