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Letter to the Editor

A cluster of vitreoretinal lymphoma in New York with possible link to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

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Pages 1998-2001 | Received 04 Sep 2017, Accepted 30 Oct 2017, Published online: 22 Nov 2017

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