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- Published on: 3 September 2007
- Published on: 2 July 2007
- Published on: 3 September 2007Authors' reply: Vitamin A deficiency during pregnancy and congenital microphthalmosShow More
Dear Editor,
We would like to thank the authors Hornby and Gilbert for their interesting letter referring to our case report of bilateral colobomatous microphthalmos with orbital cyst.[1] Their remarks and view are relevant and demand further clarification.
Because our intention was to investigate more in depth the origin of the cyst fluid and wall and because of space limitations, we were not able to...
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None declared. - Published on: 2 July 2007Vitamin A deficiency and possible link with colobomatous malformationsShow More
Dear Editor
We read with interest the letter by Decock et al regarding the rare congenital ocular malformation (orbital cyst and bilateral colobomatous microphthalmos). [1]
The female child reported was the product of a mother with documented vitamin A deficiency (VAD) during the second trimester of pregnancy after previous gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity. The authors do not report the sympto...
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