Night blindness, yellow vision, and yellow skin: Symptoms and signs of malabsorption

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde

Volumn 223, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 443-446

  Pitchon, E ^a   Sahli, O ^b   Borruat, François Xavier ^a  

^a HÔPITAL OPHTALMIQUE JULES GONIN   (Switzerland)

^b Hôpital Ophtalmique Jules Gonin ^*

Author keywords

ERG; Malabsorption; Night blindness; Vitamin A deficiency; Xanthopsia; Xerophthalmia

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CELIAC DISEASE; COLOR VISION DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; GASTROENTEROLOGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; JAUNDICE; MALABSORPTION; MALE; NEUROOPHTHALMOLOGY; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NIGHT VISION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PANCREAS CALCIFICATION; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; XEROPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; PIGMENT DISORDER; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

AGED; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; HUMANS; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; XEROPHTHALMIA;

EID: 33745933272     PISSN: 00232165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-926830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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