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Images in emergency medicine
Bloody tears
  1. Stephan Wieser
  1. Correspondence to Dr Stephan Wieser, Waid City Hospital Zurich, Department of Internal Medicine, Tiechestrasse 99, Zurich CH-8037, Switzerland; stephan.wieser{at}sunrise.ch

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2011-200955

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