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. 2021 Oct;69(10):2573.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1942_21.

Medicine adding to misery

Harinikrishna Balakrishnan  1 , Akkayasamy Kowsalya  2 , Mahesh Kumar  2
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Medicine adding to misery

Harinikrishna Balakrishnan et al. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2021 Oct.
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Figure 1
(a) Fundus photograph of both eyes showing normal disc and macula. (b) Fundus photograph at three-months followup showing temporal pallor in both eyes
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