Advances in the management of conjunctival melanoma.

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Published in Surv Ophthalmol on June 16, 2016

Authors

Gargi K Vora1, Hakan Demirci2, Brian Marr3, Prithvi Mruthyunjaya4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
2: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, W.K. Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
3: Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Ophthalmic Oncology Service Weill-Cornell Medical School, New York, New York, USA.
4: Department of Ophthalmology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Electronic address: prithvi.m@dm.duke.edu.

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