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Term:
Eye of the tiger anomaly of globus pallidus (HP:0002454)
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Eye of the tiger anomaly of globus pallidus  
The presence, on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, of markedly low signal intensity of the globus pallidus that surrounds a central region of high signal intensity in the anteromedial globus pallidus, producing an eye-of-the-tiger appearance. The sign is thought to represent iron accumulation in the globus pallidus.
Globus pallidus calcification  
Globus pallidus hypointensity on susceptibility-weighted imaging  
Iron accumulation in substantia nigra  
Pallidal degeneration  

Synonyms
Alternate IDs: HP:0012677
Xrefs: UMLS:C4025705
Definition Sources: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-9199, PMID:11110959, PMID:19881070, PMID:29371252

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