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Case Reports
. 2019 Mar 6;12(3):e229662.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2019-229662.

Ocular manifestations of Wilson's disease

Siddhi Goel  1 , Pranita Sahay  1 , Prafulla Kumar Maharana  1 , Jeewan S Titiyal  1
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Case Reports

Ocular manifestations of Wilson's disease

Siddhi Goel et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: liver disease; ophthalmology.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Slit lamp image of the right eye (A) diffuse illumination and (B) slit illumination showing green–brown copper deposition at the level of DM (K-F ring) (highlighted by red arrows). Anterior segment ocular coherence tomography image of the (C) right eye and (D) left eye showing hyper-reflective band at DM.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Slit lamp image of the (A) right eye and (B) left eye showing sunflower cataract.
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