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. 2022 Jul;36(7):1510-1511.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-021-01695-8. Epub 2021 Aug 6.

Where did all the retinal detachments go? Gathering insights into who did not attend during the first peak of COVID-19

Conor M Ramsden  1 , Mehmet Ozturk  2 , Manjit Mehat  3 , Nicholas Brennan  4 , Louisa Wickham  2
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Where did all the retinal detachments go? Gathering insights into who did not attend during the first peak of COVID-19

Conor M Ramsden et al. Eye (Lond). 2022 Jul.
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Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Characteristics of retinal detachments presenting and drop in presentations during March and April comparing March and April 2020 with 2019.
Black arrow illustrates a worse visual outcome.
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