Fundus Autofluorescence and Fluorescein Angiogram Findings: Stargardt’s Disease
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https://doi.org/10.12974/2309-6136.2013.01.01.4Keywords:
Fundus Autofluorescence, Stargardt’s Disease.Abstract
Fundus Autofluorescence is a new imaging modality to study the pathology of the retinal pigment epithelial cells. A young patient with suspected diagnosis of bilateral dry macular degeneration was later-on diagnosed to have Stargardt’s disease with the help of new ancillary test such as fundus autofluorescence in addition to other tests such as fluorescein angiography (FA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT).
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