Relationship between foveal birefringence and visual acuity in neovascular age-related macular degeneration.

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Published in Eye (Lond) on January 06, 2006

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A Weber1, A E Elsner, M Miura, S Kompa, M C Cheney

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1: The Schepens Eye Research Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston 47405, USA.

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