American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 140, Issue 1 , Pages 52.e1-52.e18 , July 2005

Electroretinographic Monitoring in Birdshot Chorioretinopathy

Presented in part as a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Orlando, Florida, October 2002.

,Accepted 24 January 2005.

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 Additional material for this article can be found on www.ajo.com.This study was supported by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness Inc and National Institutes of Health grant P30 EY14801.

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doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2005.01.053

American Journal of Ophthalmology
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