Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 34, Issue 12 , Pages 2104-2109 , December 2008

Higher-order aberrations induced by nuclear cataract

  • Jooeun Lee, MD
    • ,
  • Myoung Joon Kim, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Myoung Joon Kim, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, 388-1 Pungnap-2dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea.
    • ,
  • Hungwon Tchah, MD

,Accepted 20 August 2008.

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 This study was supported by a grant 07-400 from the Asian Institutes for Life Sciences, Seoul, Korea.

 No 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 Diego, California, USA, April 2007.

PII: S0886-3350(08)00924-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2008.08.029

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 34, Issue 12 , Pages 2104-2109 , December 2008

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