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Presented in part at the Vitreous Symposium, Annual Congress of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, 1995.
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Boulton, M., Foreman, D. & McLeod, D. Vascularised vitreoretinopathy: The role of growth factors. Eye 10, 691–696 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1996.162
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