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Ming-Cheng Tai1, Da-Wen Lu, Chiao-Hsi Chiang

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics : the Official Journal of the Association for Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
|January 22, 2004
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