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Choroid
The choroid is a vascular layer behind the retina critical in supplying nutrients and maintainance for the retina which overlies it. There is also a layer of the brain, the choroid plexus, which has maintainance functions as well.
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A 28-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: choroid?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Is a choroid fissure cyst dangerous?
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A 35-year old asked:
Anyone familiar with choroid plexus papilloma?
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A 49-year old asked:
What is a choroid plexus and a xanthogranuloma?
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A 47-year old asked:
Why is the choroid a common location for metastic cancers?
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A 36-year old asked:
How serious are bilateral choroid plexus cysts in fetus?
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A 42-year old asked:
Can anyone tell me about choroid plexus cysts on ultrasound?
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A 29-year old asked:
Can there be other abnormalities in a fetus with choroid plexus cyst?
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A 39-year old asked:
Is there a link between choroid plexus cysts and trisomy 18?
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A 32-year old male asked:
Should i be worried about a neuroepthial cyst located in the left choroid fissure region with numbness and tingling on left side.
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A 40-year old asked:
My fetus has choroid cyst on brain, doctor says not worry but how?
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A 25-year old asked:
Is there any correlation between the presence of a choroid plexus cyst at mid-pregnancy and autism?
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A 47-year old asked:
Therere are choroid plexus cysts on my baby's ultrasound. Does that mean holes in the brain? What else?
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A 33-year old male asked:
Does a father with choroid plexus cysts have an increased chance of fathering a child with genetic challenges?
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A 31-year old female asked:
Aged 32, 20 week preg, found fetal choroid plexus cyst during ultsound, doc recommended materni21 plus test, awaiting result, scared as hell.Y the cyst?
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A 41-year old asked:
My doctor just detected a fetal choroid plexus cyst at 28 weeks. Should I be worried?
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A female asked:
Can choroid fissure cyst be caused by injury? is it related to high fever & vomiting that the patient is suffering?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Um 28 week pregnant. Feeling sharp pain in left side abdomen while walking. Is it due to choroid plexus cyst or normal?
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A 33-year old male asked:
I discovered that I have choroid plexus cysts at 33 yrs old. What the likely hood early onset of dementia, parkinson's, or any neurological disorder?
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A 33-year old male asked:
Are choroid plexus cysts genetically inherited? If planning a family, should my wife and I have pre-pregnancy genetic testing?
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A 32-year old female asked:
I'm pregnant with twins and my ultrasound come back as I have a choroid plexus cyst in the ventricles of the left twin. What does this mean?
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A 31-year old female asked:
At my 20 week us i was told my baby has a choroid plexus cyst and a small fetal stomach. Odds of trisomy 18? F/u is in 4 weeks for routine us.
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A 28-year old female asked:
20 wks. Level 2 ultrasound found 2 small choroid plexus cysts. All other w baby was good. I am 28. Did not have quad screen. Should we be concerned?
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A 38-year old female asked:
Can someone explain brain MRI findings? - some prominence of the atria of the lateral ventricles, right greater than left, which appears stable and may be related to cysts at this location, involving the region of the glomus of the choroid plexus?
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A 23-year old female asked:
M 23 weeks pregnant. In my usg scan doc found choroid plexus cyst measuring 4 to 7 mm in baby head.is it dangerous for my baby after birth mentally?
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A 32-year old male asked:
Should i be concerned with a left choroid fissure neuroepthial cyst. Also present left side numbness, weakness in face, arms, legs, cognitive issue?
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A 23-year old female asked:
M 23 weeks pregnant. Feeling pain in right lower abdomen while walking n laying on right side since last morning.i found choroid plexus cyst in baby?
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A 29-year old female asked:
We just found out our water well is infected with e coli. I am 23 weeks pregnant with a baby girl that has multiple issues, cystic hygrom, choroid plexus cyst, bilater club feet, heart defect. Is this related?
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A 50-year old asked:
What is the funcction of choriod in the eye?
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A 41-year old asked:
What is the function of choriod in the eye?
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