Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1372-1379 , August 2009

Capsule anchor to manage subluxated lenses: Initial clinical experience

  • Ehud I. Assia, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Ehud I. Assia, MD, Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Meir Medical Center, 59 Tchernichovsky Street, Kfar-Saba, 44281 Israel.
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  • Yokrat Ton, MD
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  • Adi Michaeli, MD

Received 19 December 2008 ,Revised 16 February 2009 ,Accepted 16 February 2009.

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 Dr. Assia is a consultant to Hanita Lenses and the inventor of the Capsular Anchor. No other author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

 Presented at the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, USA, April 2008, and the XXVI Meeting of the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, Berlin, Germany, September 2008.

 Supported by Hanita Lenses, Kibbutz Hanita, Israel.

PII: S0886-3350(09)00399-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.02.046

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1372-1379 , August 2009

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