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Eales’ Disease

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Intraocular Inflammation

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The eponym “Eales” has been retained because of its widespread recognition and to honor Henry Eales who first described the clinical features.

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  1. Medical and Vision Research Foundations, Sankara Nethralaya, 18 College Road, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600 006, India

    Jyotirmay Biswas MS, FAMS, Madhusudan D. Davda MD, DNB & Vimal K. Parmar MS, DOMS

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  1. Centre of Ophthalmology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

    Manfred Zierhut

  2. Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Ophthalmology, Moorfields Eyes Hospital, Department of Medical Retina, UCL, London, United Kingdom

    Carlos Pavesio

  3. School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Hokkaido University Graduate, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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Biswas, J., Davda, M.D., Parmar, V.K. (2016). Eales’ Disease. In: Zierhut, M., Pavesio, C., Ohno, S., Orefice, F., Rao, N. (eds) Intraocular Inflammation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75387-2_84

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