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Macular thickness in healthy Saudi adults

A spectral-domain optical coherence tomography study

Waseem M. Al-Zamil, Fahad M. Al-Zwaidi and Sanaa A. Yassin
Saudi Medical Journal January 2017, 38 (1) 63-69; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.1.17565
Waseem M. Al-Zamil
From the Department of Ophthalmology (Al-Zamil, Yassin), University of Dammam, Al-Khobar, and Department of Ophthalmology (Al-Zwaidi), King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Fahad M. Al-Zwaidi
From the Department of Ophthalmology (Al-Zamil, Yassin), University of Dammam, Al-Khobar, and Department of Ophthalmology (Al-Zwaidi), King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sanaa A. Yassin
From the Department of Ophthalmology (Al-Zamil, Yassin), University of Dammam, Al-Khobar, and Department of Ophthalmology (Al-Zwaidi), King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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