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Huang-Link, YM., Al-Hawasi, A. & Eveman, I. Retrograde degeneration of visual pathway: hemimacular thinning of retinal ganglion cell layer in progressive and active multiple sclerosis. J Neurol 261, 2453–2456 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-014-7538-x
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