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Volume 328:1820 June 24, 1993 Number 25
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Kayser-Fleischer Ring in a Patient with Wilson's Disease

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Figure 1. Kayser-Fleischer Ring in a Patient with Wilson's Disease.

Slit-lamp photography shows a dense deposit of copper in Descemet's membrane (a Kayser-Fleischer ring) in a 17-year-old girl with Wilson's disease (Panel A). After eight years of therapy with dimercaprol and penicillamine, the Kayser-Fleischer ring had completely resolved (Panel B). The left eye is shown; the right eye had a similar appearance. (The other line is formed by the beam of the slit lamp).

 


Albert W. Biglan, M.D.
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, PA 15213


Sharon L. Taylor, M.D.
St. Francis Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15201




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