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The epidemiology of chemical eye injuries

Justin Blackburn1, Emily B Levitan, Paul A MacLennan

  • 1Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University Boulevard , Birmingham, AL 35294 , USA. jblackburn@uab.edu

Current Eye Research
|June 7, 2012
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