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  1. Clinic for Uveitis, Swiss Eye Institute and University of Bern, Bern, CH-3012, Switzerland

    Justus G. Garweg

  2. Children’s Hospital Wildermeth, Biel, Switzerland

    Claudia Suter, Christine Aebi-Ochsner & Reto Villiger

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Garweg, J.G., Suter, C., Aebi-Ochsner, C. et al. Macular oedema in Kawasaki syndrome. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 250, 1101–1104 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-011-1914-3

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