Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 879-885 , May 2005

Epi-LASIK: Preliminary clinical results of an alternative surface ablation procedure

,Accepted 8 September 2004.

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 Ioannis G. Pallikaris holds a patent on the Centurion epikeratome, and Harilaos S. Ginis and Vikentia J. Katsanevaki are paid consultants of CIBA Surgical. No other author has a financial or proprietary interest in any method or material mentioned.

PII: S0886-3350(04)01130-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.09.052

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 879-885 , May 2005

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