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Can a cilio-retinal artery influence diabetic retinopathy?
  1. L Tong
  1. Singapore National Eye Centre, 11, 3rd Hospital Avenue, Singapore 168751; Louistong@hotmail.com

    https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.87.7.929

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      Knudsen and Lervang published an interesting article in the BJO recently.1 The authors concluded that a cilio-retinal artery tends to worsen diabetic maculopathy but I believe there is an alternative interpretation of the data provided. The authors mentioned that 26/29 patients had a cilio-retinal artery in the eye with worse maculopathy, which was a statistically significant result. In the results section the authors did not report whether a unilateral cilio-retinal artery was present in the 75 subjects with identical …

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