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Pan Afr Med J
June 2017
Université de Lubumbashi, Faculté de Médecine, Service d'Ophtalmologie, Lubumbashi, République Démocratique du Congo.
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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