Ophthalmological findings in myotonic dystrophy
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Ophthalmological findings in myotonic dystrophy.
Dear Editor, We read with great interest the article by Ikeda et al. concerning ophthalmological findings in myotonic dystrophy (MD)1. We would like to thank the authors, because they cited a study we published in 2009, where we tried to understand the reasons for low intraocular pressure (IOP) in these patients. Our first goal was to check if this was a real hypotony or if it was related to an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0004-282X
DOI: 10.1590/0004-282x20170045