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Original Article

Vitamin status and mitochondrial DNA mutations in patients with incomplete recovery from an epidemic optic neuropathy in Cuba

Daniel S. Mojon Departments of Neurology, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Departments of Ophthalmology, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; University Eye Institute Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
,
Petra Kauf Mann Departments of Neurology, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
,
Herman Baker Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA
,
Norah S. Lincoff Department of Neurology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
,
Jeffrey G. Odel Departments of Ophthalmology, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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Michio Hirano Departments of Neurology, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Pages 355-360 | Accepted 14 Nov 1995, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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