Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 407-410 , March 2006

ESCRS study of prophylaxis of postoperative endophthalmitis after cataract surgery: Preliminary report of principal results from a European multicenter study

,Accepted 20 January 2006.

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 The members of the ESCRS Endophthalmitis Study Group are given in the Appendix.Funded by the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland, with support from Santen GmbH, Germering, Germany.No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

PII: S0886-3350(06)00167-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.02.021

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 407-410 , March 2006

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