Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 34, Issue 9 , Pages 1495-1498 , September 2008

Comparison of anterior capsule contraction between 5 foldable intraocular lens models

,Accepted 27 April 2008.

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

 Presented in part as a poster at the XXV Congress of the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2007.

PII: S0886-3350(08)00558-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2008.04.039

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 34, Issue 9 , Pages 1495-1498 , September 2008

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