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01-11-2020 | Diabetic Retinopathy | Letter to the Editor

COVID-19 and macular edema: a necessarily blindness?

Authors: Valentin Navel, Julien S Baker, Frédéric Dutheil

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Title: COVID-19 and macular edema: a necessarily blindness?
Authors: Valentin Navel
Julien S Baker
Frédéric Dutheil
Publication date: 01-11-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Diabetic Retinopathy
Edema
SARS-CoV-2
Diabetic Retinopathy
COVID-19
Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology / Issue 11/2020
Print ISSN: 0721-832X
Electronic ISSN: 1435-702X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-020-04838-x