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Case Report

Acute onset ocular myasthenia gravis after vaccination with the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

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Pages 630-634 | Received 19 Jan 2022, Accepted 30 Mar 2022, Published online: 02 May 2022

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