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Patients with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia (WM) and age matched controls have been examined using tests of contrast sensitivity and pattern electroretinography. The patients with WM were in remission on maintenance treatment and had only moderately elevated plasma viscosity. They showed evidence of abnormal contrast sensitivity but there was no significant difference in amplitude of the pattern ERG between patients and controls.
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Presented at the Annual Congress of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, April 1987.
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Clarke, M., Yap, M. & Weatherill, J. Contrast sensitivity and pattern ERG in Waldenstrom's macroglobulinaemia. Eye 1, 750–753 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1987.120
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1987.120