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Intraoperative complication during phacoemulsification in patient with epidermolysis bullosa
Miltiadis Papathanassiou1, Petros Petrou, Giorgos Papalexis
1University of Athens, Ophthalmology Department, Attikon Hospital, Athens, Greece. mpapathanassiou@yahoo.com
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We report the case of a 56-year-old woman with known recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa and an unremarkable ocular history who experienced an extensive corneal epithelial blister during phacoemulsification cataract surgery. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this complication.
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