Is the incidence of registrable age-related macular degeneration increasing?

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Published in Br J Ophthalmol on January 01, 1996

Authors

J Evans1, R Wormald

Author Affiliations

1: Glaxo Department of Ophthalmic Epidemiology, Moorfield's Eye Hospital, London.

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