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Editorial
. 2019 May;67(5):577-578.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_762_19.

The burden of uncorrected refractive error

Santosh G Honavar  1
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Editorial

The burden of uncorrected refractive error

Santosh G Honavar. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2019 May.
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