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    The impact of IGF-I, puberty and obesity on early retinopathy in children: a cross-sectional study

    Childhood obesity has been correlated with coronary heart disease, but the correlation with microvascular disease remains unclear. The retinal microcirculation is affected early in the process of atheroscleros...

    Carla Bizzarri, Stefania Pedicelli, Antonino Romanzo in Italian Journal of Pediatrics (2019)

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    Advantages of a next generation sequencing targeted approach for the molecular diagnosis of retinoblastoma

    Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common malignant childhood tumor of the eye and results from inactivation of both alleles of the RB1 gene. Nowadays RB genetic diagnosis requires classical chromosome investigation...

    Simona Grotta, Gemma D’Elia, Rossana Scavelli, Silvia Genovese in BMC Cancer (2015)

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    Congenital cystic eye associated with a low-grade cerebellar lesion that spontaneously regressed

    Congenital cystic eye is an exceedingly rare ocular malformative disease, originated from the failure in the invagination of the optic vesicle during the fetal period and it can be associated with other ocular...

    Maria Giuseppina Cefalo, Giovanna Stefania Colafati, Antonino Romanzo in BMC Ophthalmology (2014)