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Contact: Alissa Rooney
alissa.rooney@childrens.harvard.edu
617-355-6420
Children's Hospital Boston
Caption: This illustration highlights the differences between normal retinal blood-vessel development (at left) and the pathological vessel growth (at right) in the eye of a child with retinopathy of prematurity. Red blobs represent abnormal vessel development in the diseased eye.
Credit: Courtesy Kip Connor, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston.
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