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To the Editor: Damage induced by light has been a topic of great concern among ophthalmologists and visual scientists¹. It has been described clinically in conjunction with gazing directly into the sun² and with exposure to ophthalmic instrumentation, such as operating microscopes and endoillumination probes³. We describe a patient who had light-induced damage after clinical ophthalmoscopic examination.

The patient was a 55-year-old woman with a history of severe myopia (right eye, 15 diopters; left eye, 16 diopters), high intraocular pressure (right eye, 22 mm Hg; left eye, 25 mm Hg), glaucoma (treated with 5 percent timolol eye drops), . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Clinical Light Damage by Indirect Ophthalmoscopy
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