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Case Reports
. 2017 Oct 10;189(40):E1264.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170792.

Bitot spot: early marker for avoidable blindness

Siddharth Madan  1 , Sarita Beri  2
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Case Reports

Bitot spot: early marker for avoidable blindness

Siddharth Madan et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Left eye of an eight-year-old boy, with a large, superficial, triangular, foamy, keratinized patch in the interpalpebral region over the bulbar conjunctiva, adjacent to the temporal limbus (black arrow), suggestive of Bitot spot.
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