Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 6 , Pages 978-988 , June 2007

Prophylaxis of postoperative endophthalmitis following cataract surgery: Results of the ESCRS multicenter study and identification of risk factors

,Accepted 15 February 2007.

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 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.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.The authors wish to acknowledge inputs from the pharmaceutical associates Klaus Geldsetzer of Santen GmbH, Germering, Germany and David Lloyd of Renaissance Health Care, Surrey, UK.

PII: S0886-3350(07)00460-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.02.032

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 6 , Pages 978-988 , June 2007

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