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Superior oblique overaction from local anesthesia for cataract surgery

P H Phillips1, D L Guyton, D G Hunter

  • 1Jones Eye Institute, University of Arkansas Medical Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

Journal of AAPOS : the Official Publication of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
|October 20, 2001
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