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Capsular Block Syndrome

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Keintzel, M., Kohnen, T. (2012). Capsular Block Syndrome. In: Schmidt-Erfurth, U., Kohnen, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Ophthalmology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35951-4_457-5

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