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Malgorzata Mrugacz1, Dorota Sredzinska-Kita, Alina Bakunowicz-Lazarczyk
1Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland.
Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
|February 24, 2005
Abstract:
We present the clinical findings and follow-up data of male twins with Cohen syndrome. The most characteristic ophthalmologic findings were down-slanting eyelids, lens opacities, chorioretinal dystrophy, pigmentary retinal deposits, pale disk, and bull's eye maculae.
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