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Comment
. 2013 Dec;27(12):1420-1.
doi: 10.1038/eye.2013.218. Epub 2013 Oct 11.

Is the mechanism of 'poppers maculopathy' photic injury?

M A P Fajgenbaum  1
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Is the mechanism of 'poppers maculopathy' photic injury?

M A P Fajgenbaum. Eye (Lond). 2013 Dec.
No abstract available

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Figure 1
A comparison of SD-OCT images in (a) ‘poppers maculopathy' as presented in Case 2 of Davies et al with (b) photic retinopathy in a 30-year-old male who presented to my clinic 2 weeks after sun-gazing. Notice the similarity in location, size, shape, and echogenecity of the respective lesions in the IS-OS junction.
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  • Response to Fajgenbaum.
    Davies AJ, Kelly SP, Naylor SG, Bhatt PR, Mathews JP, Sahni J, Haslett R, McKibbin M. Davies AJ, et al. Eye (Lond). 2013 Dec;27(12):1421. doi: 10.1038/eye.2013.220. Epub 2013 Oct 11. Eye (Lond). 2013. PMID: 24113302 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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