Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 565-572 , April 2006

Surgically induced astigmatism after phacoemulsification in eyes with mild to moderate corneal astigmatism: Temporal versus on-axis clear corneal incisions

,Accepted 21 August 2005.

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 Presented as a poster at the XXIInd Congress of the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, Paris, France, September 2004.No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.W. Dupont and W. Plummer provided the shareware program PS Power and Sample Size Calculations V 2.13, with which the power of the study was calculated.

PII: S0886-3350(05)01099-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2005.12.104

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 565-572 , April 2006

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