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Long-term visual damage after acute methanol poisonings: Longitudinal cross-sectional study in 50 patients

Sergey ZakharovToxicological Information Center, Department of Occupational Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech RepublicCorrespondence[email protected]
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Daniela PelclovaToxicological Information Center, Department of Occupational Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Pavel DiblikDepartment of Ophthalmology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Pavel UrbanToxicological Information Center, Department of Occupational Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Pavel KuthanDepartment of Ophthalmology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Olga NurievaToxicological Information Center, Department of Occupational Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Katerina KotikovaToxicological Information Center, Department of Occupational Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Tomas NavratilDepartment of Biomimetic Electrochemistry, J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the AS CR, v.v.i, Prague 8, Czech Republic;Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Martin KomarcInstitute of Biophysics and Informatics, First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Jaromir BelacekInstitute of Biophysics and Informatics, First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Prague, General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Zdenek SeidlDepartment of Radiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Manuela VaneckovaDepartment of Radiology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Jaroslav A HubacekCentre for Experimental Medicine, Institute for Clinical and Experimental medicine, Prague 4, Czech Republic
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Ondrej BezdicekDepartment of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Jiri KlempirDepartment of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Maksim YurchenkoInstitute of Clinical and Experimental Dental Medicine, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Evzen RuzickaDepartment of Neurology and Center of Clinical Neuroscience, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Michal MiovskyDepartment of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Barbara JanikovaDepartment of Addictology, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital, Prague 2, Czech Republic
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Knut Erik HovdaThe Norwegian CBRNe Centre of Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Pages 884-892 | Received 21 Jun 2015, Accepted 19 Aug 2015, Published online: 12 Sep 2015

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