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. 2020 Sep-Oct;83(5):454-456.
doi: 10.5935/0004-2749.20200106.

Ten years after an outbreak of Fusarium endophthalmitis following cataract surgery

Neşe Alagöz  1
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Ten years after an outbreak of Fusarium endophthalmitis following cataract surgery

Neşe Alagöz. Arq Bras Oftalmol. 2020 Sep-Oct.
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Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest: None of the authors have any potential conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Figure 1
The only patient with favorable results in the series (case 6): A clear cornea, an iris-fixated intraocular lens, and a large peripheral iridectomy were noted on the slit-lamp photograph (A), whereas paleness of the optic disc was visible on color fundus image at 10-year follow-up (B).
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