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Presented at the Joint Irish-Belgian Ophthalmological Society Meeting at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in Dublin, on September 13, 1984.
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Coscas, G. Subretinal neovascularisation in senile macular degeneration. Eye 1, 364–378 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1987.56
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