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A 55-mm object inside a 40-mm orbit

Anne M Floyd1, Katherine M Whipple, Lee Hooi Lim

  • 1Division of Oculofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, UCSD Department of Ophthalmology , La Jolla, California , USA and.

Orbit (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
|July 24, 2013
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