Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 10 , Pages 1688-1690 , October 2007

Modified capsular tension ring for cortical removal after implantation

  • Bonnie An Henderson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Bonnie An Henderson, MD, Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, 50 Staniford Street, Suite 600, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
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  • Jae Yong Kim, MD, PhD

,Accepted 30 May 2007.

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 Neither author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

 Presented in part at the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery, San Francisco, California, USA, March 2006, and the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, November 2006.

 Dimitri Azar, MD, Robert Chang, MD, and Jose De La Cruz, MD, helped in obtaining the Miyake Views.

PII: S0886-3350(07)01211-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.05.041

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 10 , Pages 1688-1690 , October 2007

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