[Asteroid hyalopathy (benson's disease): about a case].

Pan Afr Med J

Université de Lubumbashi, Faculté de Médecine, Service d'Ophtalmologie, Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo.

Published: June 2017

We here report a case of a 58 year-old diabetic male patient with asteroid hyalopathy, an affection rarely described in the literature. This study can help focus the attention of scientists on the pathologies of the vitreous disorders in diabetic patients as well as on other systemic diseases asteroid hyalopathy may be associated with.

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