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The assessment of autofluorescence of the crystalline lens in diabetic patients and healthy controls: can it be used as a screening test?

BACKGROUND: Our purpose was to demonstrate if measuring lens autofluorescence (AF) with a scanning confocal biomicroscope may be used to identify subjects with undiagnosed type II diabetes mellitus (DM), and hence, for it to be used as a marker for the severity of diabetic retinopathy in diabetic pa...

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Autores principales: Pehlivanoğlu, Seren, Acar, Nur, Albayrak, Sinan, Karakaya, Muharrem, Ofluoğlu, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6027705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29983542
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S164960