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Norihiko Yokoi1, Anthony J Bron, John M Tiffany

  • 1Department of Ophthalmology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kaiji-cho, Hirokoji-agaru, Kawaramachi-dori, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-0841, Japan. nyokoi@ophth.kpu-m.ac.jp

Archives of Ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
|September 15, 2004
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