Published on Feb 18, 2021
Medicine
52. A few 'Pseudos'
- Pseudohyopyon: A collection of cells infiltrating the anterior chamber of the eye resembling an hypopyon but typically caused instead by cancer (secondaries, retinoblastomas), phacolytic glaucoma or endophthalmitis.
- Pseudodementia: An impairment in thinking accompanied by a withdrawal from social interactions that resembles dementia but instead is the result of depression, esp. in the elderly.
- Pseudothrombocytopenia: results from EDTA anticoagulant- induced platelet clumping; the phenomenon typically dis- appears when blood is collected in a tube containing citrate anticoagulant.