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Ultrastructural changes in the external recti muscles in diabetes mellitus
1Department No. I. of Ophthalmology, Semmelweis University School of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary.
Documenta Ophthalmologica. Advances in Ophthalmology
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Six external recti muscles chosen from a material of 20 muscles were studied with the transmission electron microscope. The specimens were obtained during enucleation procedure. All of the patients suffered from diabetes mellitus. Specimens of non-diabetic patients of the same age group were used as controls. The age-related changes were less distinct than those found in the diabetic material. In diabetes muscular atrophy dominated and serious signs of vasculopathy were present.