Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 5 , Pages 715-716 , May 2006

Modified flexible iris retractor to retract superior iris and support inferior capsule in eyes with iris coloboma and inferior zonular deficiency

,Accepted 25 August 2005.

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 No author has any financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

PII: S0886-3350(06)00110-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.01.060

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 5 , Pages 715-716 , May 2006

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