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Concentration of intravitreally injected triamcinolone acetonide in aqueous humour
  1. Jost B Jonas
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty for Clinical Medicine Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany; Jost.Jonas@augen.ma.uni-heidelberg.de

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