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Article: Optic nerve involvement in diabetes mellitus.(Original Article)
- Article from:
- Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
- Article date:
- July 1, 1983
- Author:
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Byline: A. Sinha
Although ocular complications of diabetes have been described in detail, very few reports deal with optic nerve involvement in this complex metabolic disorder &the clinical diagnosis of diabetic optic neuritis/atrophy is always tentative to some extent. The incidence of optic nerve involvement in diabetes also varies according to different authors.
Recently four cases of post neuritic optic atrophy in patients with uncontrolled diabetes were seen, and these cases surprisingly showed only mild retinopathic changes.
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