Diagnosis difficulties in a patient with progressive loss of vision - a case report

The paper presents the case of a 57-year-old male patient who complained of slow progressive loss of visual acuity. Anamnesis revealed he was a heavy drinker and he was previously diagnosed with a pancreatic cancer, observed on the MRI. The clinical examination revealed ocular features that made the...

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Autor principal: Cristescu, Teodor Razvan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Romanian Society of Ophthalmology 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450373
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description The paper presents the case of a 57-year-old male patient who complained of slow progressive loss of visual acuity. Anamnesis revealed he was a heavy drinker and he was previously diagnosed with a pancreatic cancer, observed on the MRI. The clinical examination revealed ocular features that made the diagnosis difficult. Initially, it seemed to be a case of narrow angle glaucoma but further ocular examinations revealed macular thinning.
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spelling pubmed-57100552017-12-14 Diagnosis difficulties in a patient with progressive loss of vision - a case report Cristescu, Teodor Razvan Rom J Ophthalmol Case Reports The paper presents the case of a 57-year-old male patient who complained of slow progressive loss of visual acuity. Anamnesis revealed he was a heavy drinker and he was previously diagnosed with a pancreatic cancer, observed on the MRI. The clinical examination revealed ocular features that made the diagnosis difficult. Initially, it seemed to be a case of narrow angle glaucoma but further ocular examinations revealed macular thinning. Romanian Society of Ophthalmology 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5710055/ /pubmed/29450373 Text en ©Romanian Society of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Diagnosis difficulties in a patient with progressive loss of vision - a case report
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title_full Diagnosis difficulties in a patient with progressive loss of vision - a case report
title_fullStr Diagnosis difficulties in a patient with progressive loss of vision - a case report
title_full_unstemmed Diagnosis difficulties in a patient with progressive loss of vision - a case report
title_short Diagnosis difficulties in a patient with progressive loss of vision - a case report
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