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Letter to the Editor
Specular microscopic findings of corneal deposits in patients with Bietti’s crystalline corneal retinal dystrophy
  1. YUKO WADA
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai Japan
  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai Japan
  1. MITSURU NAKAZAWA
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai Japan
  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai Japan
  1. TOSHIAKI ABE,
  2. TAKASHI SHIONO,
  3. MAKOTO TAMAI
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai Japan
  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan
  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai Japan
  1. Yuko Wada, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8754, Japan.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.83.9.1088k

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    Editor,—In 1937, Bietti1 first described three cases of tapetoretinal degeneration characterised by yellowish glistening retinal crystals, tapetoretinal degeneration with choroidal sclerosis, and marginal crystalline deposits of the cornea. Although more than 100 cases of crystalline retinopathy have been reported, crystalline deposits of the corneal limbus have been observed in only four out …

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