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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, UC Irvine Medical Center, University of California, Irvine, 101 The City Drive South, Irvine, CA, 29697, USA

    Barry Kuppermann

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  1. Dept of Ophthal & Optometry,AKH, Medical University of Wien Dept of Ophthal & Optometry,AKH, Wien, Austria

    Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main Department of Ophthalmology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Thomas Kohnen

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Kuppermann, B. (2015). Dexamethasone Implant. In: Schmidt-Erfurth, U., Kohnen, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35951-4_1132-1

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