Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 353-356 , March 2008

Closed-chamber pulling-injection system for donor graft insertion in endothelial keratoplasty

  • Claudio Macaluso, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Claudio Macaluso, MD, Ophthalmology, University of Parma, Via Gramsci 14, I-43100 Parma, Italy.

,Accepted 19 November 2007.

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 The author has a proprietary interest as inventor of the closed-chamber pulling-injection system (international patent held by the University of Parma).

 Presented in part at a meeting of the Italian Ophthalmological Society, Rome, Italy, May 2006, and at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, November 2006.

 Supported in part by Italian FIL 2007 funds.

PII: S0886-3350(07)02046-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.11.019

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 34, Issue 3 , Pages 353-356 , March 2008

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