Ocular ochronosis: A case report and clinical findings
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Ocular Findings in a Case of Hereditary Ochronosis.
THE literature apparently contains only four pathological examinations of the eye in hereditary ochronosis, and all of very recent date. The first two were carried out on biopsy material (Seitz, 1954; Rodenhiiuser, 1957) and the other two on the whole eye (Rones, 1960; Allen, O'Malley, and Straatsma, 1961). An ochronotic eye enucleated because of a mistaken diagnosis of malignant melanoma was e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1395-3907
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2002.800321.x