Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 7 , Pages 1195-1200 , July 2007

Assessment of epithelial integrity and cell viability in epithelial flaps prepared with the epi-LASIK procedure

,Accepted 12 March 2007.

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 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.Supported by a grant-in-aid (18591931) for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sports of Japan.John Bush proofread this paper. Yo Nakamura and Akemi Kono helped obtain tissue for the study.

PII: S0886-3350(07)00646-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.03.038

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 7 , Pages 1195-1200 , July 2007

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