How to diagnose dry anophthalmic socket syndrome (DASS) in the clinical routine.

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"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Supported by Cologne Fortune program of the University of Cologne to ACR; supported by the Cologne Clinician Scientist Program (CCSP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, FI 773/15-1, Project No. 413543196) to ACR; German Research Foundation (FOR2240 “[Lymph]Angiogenesis and Cellular Immunity in Inflammatory Diseases of the Eye” to LMH). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. Funding"