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Management

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Authoring team

  • in general, patients require referral for ophthalmalogical assessment - the only patients who do not require referral are those with small floaters that have been present unchanged for two months or more and there is no visual loss.
  • all unexplained flashes require prompt referral

Reference:

  • (1) Practitioner 1998; 242:302-4.

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