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Letter to the Editor
Usefulness of three dimensional ultrasonography for invisible fundus
  1. KAZUKO ENDO
  1. Division of Ophthalmology, Tokyo University Branch Hospital,Tokyo, Japan
  2. Division of Ophthalmology, Tokyo University Branch Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  1. SATOSHI KATO,
  2. HARUMI FUKUSHIMA,
  3. KENJI INOUE,
  4. JIRO NUMAGA,
  5. HIDETOSHI KAWASHIMA
  1. Division of Ophthalmology, Tokyo University Branch Hospital,Tokyo, Japan
  2. Division of Ophthalmology, Tokyo University Branch Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  1. Satoshi Kato, MD, Division of Ophthalmology, Tokyo University Branch Hospital, 3-28-6 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo, 112-8688 Japan katou-s{at}ka2.so-net.ne.jp

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.84.9.1075g

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