Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 11 , Pages 1846-1850 , November 2007

Glide insertion technique for donor cornea lenticule during Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty

,Accepted 11 June 2007.

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 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

 Supported in part by a Peel Travel Grant Award 2006 (J.S. Mehta) from the Peel Medical Research Trust, London, United Kingdom.

 Miss Rebekah Poh assisted with the scanning electron microscopy.

PII: S0886-3350(07)01376-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.06.050

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 11 , Pages 1846-1850 , November 2007

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