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Neovascular age‐related macular degeneration inactivated during systemic administration of an immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab for lung cancer

Yoshihiro Wakabayashi, Y. Usui, Setsuko Kawakami, T. Hirose, H. Goto

Acta ophthalmologica, 2021

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