Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 8 , Pages 1482-1484 , August 2007

Topical anesthesia-induced keratopathy after laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy

,Accepted 5 April 2007.

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 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.Presented in part at the meeting of the International Society of Refractive Surgery of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Hong Kong, China, 2005.

PII: S0886-3350(07)00826-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.04.020

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 8 , Pages 1482-1484 , August 2007

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