Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 1300-1309 , June 2004

Quality assessment model of 3 different microkeratomes through confocal microscopy

  • Jaime Javaloy Estañ, MD,PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Jaime Javaloy Estañ, Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, Avda Denia, 111, Alicante, Spain.
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  • Marı́a T Vidal, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Alicante, Spain
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  • Antonio Quinto, OA

      Affiliations

    • Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, Miguel Hernández University, the Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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  • Victoria de Rojas, MD,PhD

      Affiliations

    • Instituto Gallego de Oftalmologı́a, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
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  • Jorge L Alió, MD,PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cornea and Refractive Surgery, Alicante, Spain

,Accepted 23 October 2003.

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☆ The authors declare no proprietary or financial interest about any of the products used in the study.

☆☆ This study was supported in part by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, Red Temática de Investigación en Oftalmologia, Subproyecto de Cirugia Refractiva y Calidad Visual (C03/13).

PII: S0886-3350(03)01044-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2003.10.024

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 1300-1309 , June 2004

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