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Soap Gets in Your Eyes

We present a previously unreported series of five cases of acute angle closure glaucoma associated with watching the Australia soap opera "Neighbours". Two cases were bilateral and associated with watching two episodes of "Neighbours" on the same day. The pathogenesis, and possib...

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Autores principales: Laidlaw, Alistair, Bloom, Philip
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Clinical Press 1990
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1369543
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description We present a previously unreported series of five cases of acute angle closure glaucoma associated with watching the Australia soap opera "Neighbours". Two cases were bilateral and associated with watching two episodes of "Neighbours" on the same day. The pathogenesis, and possible role of watching soap operas in the causation of primary angle closure glaucoma is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-51149652017-02-02 Soap Gets in Your Eyes Laidlaw, Alistair Bloom, Philip West Engl Med J Articles We present a previously unreported series of five cases of acute angle closure glaucoma associated with watching the Australia soap opera "Neighbours". Two cases were bilateral and associated with watching two episodes of "Neighbours" on the same day. The pathogenesis, and possible role of watching soap operas in the causation of primary angle closure glaucoma is discussed. Clinical Press 1990-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5114965/ /pubmed/1369543 Text en Copyright © West of England Medical Journal Co Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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