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Fundus Photography as a Convenient Tool to Study Microvascular Responses to Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Epidemiological Studies
Published on: October 22, 2014
Is funduscopy clinically useful in the evaluation of the hypertensive patient?
Ari Mosenkis1, Raymond R Townsend
1Hypertension Program, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Journal of Clinical Hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.)
|December 23, 2003
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