DIABETES AND OCULAR AND RENAL COMPLICATIONS
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Ocular Complications of Diabetes
THERE is no doubt that the retinal changes which may occur in diabetic patients are by far the most important ocular complication of the disease. It is now generally recognized that there is a type of retinopathy peculiar to diabetics, which is quite distinct from that occurring as a result of hypertension or arteriosclerosis. Ballantyne and Loewenstein (1943), reviewing a large series of diabe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Research
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0031-3998,1530-0447
DOI: 10.1203/00006450-198704010-01037