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01-07-2021 | Letter to the Editor

Regression of drusen or vitelliform material heralding geographic atrophy: correlation between clinical observations and basic science

Authors: Jason M. L. Miller, Qitao Zhang, Mark W. Johnson

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Title: Regression of drusen or vitelliform material heralding geographic atrophy: correlation between clinical observations and basic science
Authors: Jason M. L. Miller
Qitao Zhang
Mark W. Johnson
Publication date: 01-07-2021
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology / Issue 7/2021
Print ISSN: 0721-832X
Electronic ISSN: 1435-702X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-021-05101-7