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Review Article| Volume 6, P201-216, August 2021

Diagnostic and Treatment Update on Sickle Cell Retinopathy

      Sickle cell disease has a wide variety of ocular manifestations, of which vaso-occlusive proliferative retinopathy is the main source of visual morbidity.

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