RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Welding arc maculopathy and fluphenazine.
JF British Journal of Ophthalmology
JO Br J Ophthalmol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
SP 433
OP 435
DO 10.1136/bjo.75.7.433
VO 75
IS 7
A1 W. J. Power
A1 S. P. Travers
A1 D. J. Mooney
YR 1991
UL http://bjo.bmj.com/content/75/7/433.abstract
AB A 45-year-old male patient presented with a bilateral maculopathy following unprotected exposure of less than two minutes' duration to a manual metal arc welding unit. He had been receiving the drug fluphenazine for the previous 10 years for treatment of depression. We believe that the drug fluphenazine, which had accumulated in his retinal pigment epithelium, may have rendered him particularly susceptible to retinal photic damage.