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Those excrescences on Descemet's membrane
  1. T Lietman,
  2. J Lee,
  3. S Costanza
  1. FI Proctor Foundation and the Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
  1. Correspondence to: Thomas Lietman, MD, WHO Collaborating Center, Department of Ophthalmology, FI Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, 95 Kirkham Street, Room 307, San Francisco, CA 94143–0944, USA; tml{at}itsa.ucsf.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.87.4.515-a

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