Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 1085-1088 , July 2006

Pulsed electron avalanche knife for capsulotomy in congenital and mature cataract

,Accepted 27 January 2006.

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 Presented in part at the XXIII Congress of the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005.Daniel Palanker has a patent-related financial interest in PEAK. No other author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.Part of this project (Stanford University) was provided by the NIH R01 EY01288 grant and by the Whitaker Foundation grant RG-03-0042.

PII: S0886-3350(06)00311-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.03.020

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 1085-1088 , July 2006

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