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Authors’ response: evaluation of choroidal thickness among patients with oculocutaneous albinism
  1. Levent Karabas1,
  2. Fehim Esen2,
  3. Hande Celiker2,
  4. Nursel Elcioglu3,
  5. Eren Cerman2,
  6. Muhsin Eraslan2,
  7. Haluk Kazokoglu2,
  8. Ozlem Sahin2
  1. 1 Department of Ophthalmology, Kocaeli University School of Medicine, Kocaeli, Turkey
  2. 2 Department of Ophthalmology, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
  3. 3 Department of Pediatrics, Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hande Celiker, Department of Ophthalmology, Marmara Universitesi E. A. Hastanesi, Goz Hastaliklari Anabilim Dali, Pendik, Istanbul, 34899, Turkey; drhandeceliker{at}yahoo.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2014-305512

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    We thank Chan et al 1 for their interest in our work and their valuable comments. The authors kindly reminded that diurnal variation choroidal thickness may influence our results. We agree that diurnal variation in choroidal thickness can influence the measurements performed by enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (OCT).2 ,3 Unfortunately, our study was not initially designed to eliminate the influence of diurnal variation, as those studies were not available when we started our study. We examined most of the patients during the afternoon (between 12:00 and 17:00) due to logistical availability reasons and this …

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    • Contributors LK, FE, HC, NE, EC, ME, HK and OS wrote the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.