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Whole Vitreous Humor Dissection for Vitreodynamic Analysis
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Whole Vitreous Humor Dissection for Vitreodynamic Analysis

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[Vitreous floaters]

Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg1,2, Karl Brasse3, Hans Hoerauf4

  • 1John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, 65 Mario Capecchi Drive, UT 84132, Salt Lake City, USA. steffen.valckenberg@utah.edu.

Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft
|April 16, 2020
PubMed

Keywords:
FloaterMyodesopsiaND:YAG laserWeiss-Martegiani ringYAG vitreolysis

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