PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Y Miyake
AU  - S Goto
AU  - I Ota
AU  - H Ichikawa
TI  - Vitreous fluorophotometry in patients with cone-rod dystrophy.
AID  - 10.1136/bjo.68.7.489
DP  - 1984 Jul 01
TA  - British Journal of Ophthalmology
PG  - 489--493
VI  - 68
IP  - 7
4099  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/68/7/489.short
4100  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/68/7/489.full
SO  - Br J Ophthalmol1984 Jul 01; 68
AB  - Eight patients with cone-rod dystrophy were examined by means of vitreous fluorophotometry. The data in three patients with an early stage of retinitis pigmentosa (rod-cone dystrophy) served for comparison. In contrast with the abnormal findings on vitreous fluorophotometry in patients with an early stage of retinitis pigmentosa the value of vitreous fluorophotometry in cone-rod dystrophy was within the normal range in all patients except the two with advanced stages of this disease. Our results suggest that, although both diseases are based on diffuse dystrophy of photoreceptors, and the final stages of the two diseases may show several similar features, the process of breakdown of the blood retinal barrier differs greatly in the two diseases.