Suppose that F is a smooth and connected complex surface (not necessarily compact) containing a smooth rational curve with positive self-intersection. We prove that if there exists a non-constant meromorphic function on F, then the field of meromorphic functions on F is isomorphic to the field of rational functions in one or two variables over C.
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