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A Metadata Extraction Approach for Clinical Case Reports to Enable Advanced Understanding of Biomedical Concepts
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[Edematous maculopathy-- a too broad diagnostic "umbrella"?]
S Apostol1, A Cristescu, C Daraban
1Clinica de Oftalmologie, MBM Optics Group.
Oftalmologia (Bucharest, Romania : 1990)
|January 21, 2000
Abstract:
In the beginning, the paper presents some theoretical concepts about the pathological anatomy and the psychopathology of the macular oedema. The next part realizes a systematization of the most important ocular diseases associated with macular oedema, sustained by ophthalmoscopical and fluorescein angiography images. The final part contains the conclusions.
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