Incidence of blindness and severe visual impairment in Germany: projections for 2030.

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

• Publication date

  2011-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1167/iovs.10-6987PMID 21447690
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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