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Case Reports in Medicine
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 539761, 3 pages
Cortical Blindness due to Bilateral Occipital Infarcts in a Renal Failure Patient with Prostate Cancer: A Rare Complication of Hemodialysis
1Department of Urology II Clinic of Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
2Department of Ophthalmology III Clinic of Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
3Department of Nephrology Clinic of Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, 06100 Ankara, Turkey
Received 1 May 2012; Revised 8 November 2012; Accepted 20 December 2012
Academic Editor: Jonathan E. Sears
Copyright © 2013 O. G. Doluoglu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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