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  1. Los Angeles, USA

    Jerome T. Pearlman M.D., Samuel J. Pearlman M.D. & Fred E. Engreen PhD

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, USA

    Jerome T. Pearlman M.D.

  3. The Department of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA

    Samuel J. Pearlman M.D.

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This study was supported by USPHS Research Grant EY-00331 from the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service.

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Pearlman, J.T., Pearlman, S.J. & Engreen, F.E. Early efforts to view the human fundus. Doc Ophthalmol 34, 317–325 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151818

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