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Pathophysiology of the optic neuropathy associated with Friedreich ataxia

Claron D Alldredge1, Christopher R Schlieve, Neil R Miller

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, 53792, USA.

Archives of Ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
|November 12, 2003
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