Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 1316-1319 , June 2004

Surgically induced astigmatism after superotemporal and superonasal clear corneal incisions in phacoemulsification

,Accepted 24 September 2003.

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☆ Presented in part at the VII Winter Refractive Surgery Meeting, Rome, Italy, January 2003.

☆☆ None of the authors has any proprietary interest in any product mentioned.

PII: S0886-3350(03)01031-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2003.11.034

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 1316-1319 , June 2004

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