Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 1119-1128 , July 2006

Confocal assessment of the corneal response to intracorneal lens insertion and laser in situ keratomileusis with flap creation using IntraLase

,Accepted 2 January 2006.

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 Presented in part at the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery, Washington, DC, April 2005; the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision Science, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, May 2005; and the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 2005.Supported in part by NIH grants R01 EY013322 (W.M.P.), departmental infrastructure grant EY016664, a Lew R. Wasserman Merit award (W.M.P.), and an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.01.093

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 7 , Pages 1119-1128 , July 2006

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