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Original Article

Intravitreally Injected HCmel12 Melanoma Cells Serve as a Mouse Model of Tumor Biology of Intraocular Melanoma

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Pages 121-128 | Received 24 Mar 2014, Accepted 27 Dec 2014, Published online: 06 Feb 2015

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