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Indian J Ophthalmol
; 2013 Jan-Feb; 61(1): 35-37
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-145343
ABSTRACT
A 39-year-old female with elevated serum cobalt levels from her bilateral hip prostheses presented with a 3-week history of blurred vision in her left eye. Optical coherence tomography revealed patchy degeneration of the photoreceptor-retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) complex. The lesions were hypofluorescent on indocyanine green angiography. We postulate that this is a case of implant-related chorio-retinal cobalt toxicity.