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A clinicopathologic study of posterior polymorphous dystrophy:implications for pathogenetic mechanism of the associated glaucoma.

A B Threlkeld ¹, W R Green ¹, H A Quigley ¹, Z de la Cruz ¹, W J Stark ¹

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