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This chapter is about Coats disease. The diagnosis and classification of Coats disease is explained and illustrated with many pictures.

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Spandau, U., Kim, S.J. (2019). Coats Disease. In: Pediatric Retinal Vascular Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13701-4_1

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