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You're the flight surgeon: a retinal hole with operculum
Esan Simon1, Daron Watts, Bruce K Bohnker
1Department of Graduate Medical Education, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, 2601 Louis Bauer Rd., Brooks City-Base, TX 78235-5130, USA.
Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine
|May 20, 2006
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