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01-04-2021 | Letter to the Editor

Safety of perfluorocarbon liquids cannot be the retinologist’s responsibility

Author: J. Carlos Pastor

Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology | Issue 4/2021

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Coco RM, Srivastava GK, Andrés-Iglesias C, Medina J, Rull F, Fernandez-Vega-Gonzalez A, Fernandez-Bueno I, Dueñas A, Pastor JC (2019) Acute retinal toxicity associated with a mixture of perfluorooctane and perfluorohexyloctane: failure of another indirect cytotoxicity analysis. Br J Ophthalmol 103:49–54. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2017-311471CrossRefPubMed

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Title: Safety of perfluorocarbon liquids cannot be the retinologist’s responsibility
Author: J. Carlos Pastor
Publication date: 01-04-2021
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology / Issue 4/2021
Print ISSN: 0721-832X
Electronic ISSN: 1435-702X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-021-05111-5

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