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Letter to the Editor

Therapeutic Changes in Bilateral Choroidal Metastasis from Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with Response to Afatinib: A Case Report

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Pages 860-863 | Received 11 Nov 2018, Accepted 13 Feb 2019, Published online: 23 Apr 2019

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