Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 2 , Pages 287-292 , February 2007

Torsional mode versus conventional ultrasound mode phacoemulsification: Randomized comparative clinical study

,Accepted 15 October 2006.

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 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.Y. Liu and M. Zeng contributed equally to this work.Presented in part at the 21st Congress of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, Singapore, June 2006.

PII: S0886-3350(06)01472-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.10.044

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 2 , Pages 287-292 , February 2007

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