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Could you please describe hollen horst plaques in the right peripheral retinal artery?
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Cholesterol: Cholesterol deposits can "break off" from arteries in the heart, chest or neck and travel to the retinal artery. These plaques can be seen by an eye specialist as white spots - hollenhorst described this and became famous.
Answered 12/10/2013
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