Successful surgical management of bilateral epiretinal membrane in a child with only café-au-lait spots

A 6-year-old boy diagnosed as anisometropic amblyopia, with only café-au-lait spots and a family history of neurofibromatosis, presented with decrease in vision in the both eyes. Dilated fundus examination showed epiretinal membrane in both eyes over the macula. He underwent successful surgical mana...

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Autores principales: Philip, Swetha Sara, Kuriakose, Thomas, Chacko, Geeta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5508470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28643724
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_649_16
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description A 6-year-old boy diagnosed as anisometropic amblyopia, with only café-au-lait spots and a family history of neurofibromatosis, presented with decrease in vision in the both eyes. Dilated fundus examination showed epiretinal membrane in both eyes over the macula. He underwent successful surgical management of the epiretinal membrane.
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spelling pubmed-55084702017-07-17 Successful surgical management of bilateral epiretinal membrane in a child with only café-au-lait spots Philip, Swetha Sara Kuriakose, Thomas Chacko, Geeta Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications A 6-year-old boy diagnosed as anisometropic amblyopia, with only café-au-lait spots and a family history of neurofibromatosis, presented with decrease in vision in the both eyes. Dilated fundus examination showed epiretinal membrane in both eyes over the macula. He underwent successful surgical management of the epiretinal membrane. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5508470/ /pubmed/28643724 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_649_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_fullStr Successful surgical management of bilateral epiretinal membrane in a child with only café-au-lait spots
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