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Comment
. 2019 May;33(5):850-859.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-018-0313-y. Epub 2018 Dec 14.

Comment on: Eponymous women in ophthalmology: syndromes with prominent eye manifestations named after female physicians

Peter B M Thomas  1 , Chrishan D Gunasekera  2
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Comment on: Eponymous women in ophthalmology: syndromes with prominent eye manifestations named after female physicians

Peter B M Thomas et al. Eye (Lond). 2019 May.
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Top—the number of uses of 291 ophthalmic eponyms in the title of PubMed indexed documents per year since 1900. Middle—the proportion of PubMed indexed documents using one of 291 ophthalmic eponyms in their title since 1900. Bottom—the ratio of PubMed indexed documents using one of 291 ophthalmic eponyms in their title to those using one of 50 common clinical terms since 1900
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