Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 2629-2631 , December 2004

Clear lens extraction for the treatment of persistent accommodative spasm after head trauma

,Accepted 11 May 2004.

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 Presented at the branch meeting of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists, National Park, New Zealand, May 2003.None of the authors has a proprietary or financial interest in any material or method mentioned.

PII: S0886-3350(04)00648-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.05.049

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 12 , Pages 2629-2631 , December 2004

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