Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 11 , Pages 1857-1859 , November 2009

Management of cataract caused by inadvertent capsule penetration during intravitreal injection of ranibizumab

  • Muhammad Usman Saeed, MBBS, MRCS (Ed), MRCOphth

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Muhammad Usman Saeed, MBBS, MRCS (Ed), MRCOphth, Arrowe Park Hospital, Arrowe Park Road, Wirral, CH49 5PE, United Kingdom.
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  • Som Prasad, MS, FRCSEd, FRCOphth, FACS

Received 23 March 2009 ,Revised 11 May 2009 ,Accepted 13 May 2009.

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 Neither 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 Francisco, California, USA, April 2009.

PII: S0886-3350(09)00750-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.05.050

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 11 , Pages 1857-1859 , November 2009

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