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. 1995 Sep;79(9):856–860. doi: 10.1136/bjo.79.9.856

Fundal white dots: the spectrum of a similar pathological process.

D Ben Ezra 1, J V Forrester 1
PMCID: PMC505273  PMID: 7488606

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