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Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Yu-Chieh Wu & Yu-Bai Chou
School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Yu-Bai Chou
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