Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 770-772 , May 2007

Use of an air–fluid exchange system to promote graft adhesion during Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty

,Accepted 6 November 2006.

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 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any method or material mentioned.Supported in part by a Research to Prevent Blindness, the Medical College of Wisconsin (S.B.K., D.J.C.), challenge grant to the Department of Ophthalmology of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and an NIH 8K12 RR023264 multidisciplinary clinical research career development programs grant (W.J.D.).

PII: S0886-3350(07)00312-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.11.033

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 5 , Pages 770-772 , May 2007

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