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Long-Term Phenothiazine Administration and the Eye in 100 Malaysians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Chin Cheuk Ngen  and
Pall Singh
Chin Cheuk Ngen*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry
Pall Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Ophthalmology
*
∗National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Abstract

Seventy-three out of a hundred Malaysians on phenothiazines for more than 24 months had ocular pigmentation. Seventy-one had conjunctiva pigmentation. No pigmentary retinopathy or visual impairment was detected. Frequency of pigmentation increased with age and with higher total dosage prescribed, but there was no critical level below which pigmentation was not detected.

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Brief Reports
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 2 , February 1988 , pp. 278 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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