Histopathology of mitochondrial cytopathy and the Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome.

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  • P Runge
  • D Calver
  • J Marshall
  • D Taylor
چکیده

Clinical and histopathological studies of two patients with distinctly different inherited juvenile retinal dystrophies indicate that the ocular defect in mitochondrial cytopathy involves the underlying pigment epithelium, whereas in the Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome the photoreceptor cells are primarily affected.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The British journal of ophthalmology

دوره 70 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1986