Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 163-164 , September 2006

Traumatic aniridia after small incision cataract extraction

  • Hiten G. Sheth

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Department of Ophthalmology, North Middlesex Hospital, Old Nurses Home, Stirling Way, Edmunton, London N18 1QX, UK. Tel.: +44 208 887 2216.
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  • Alistair H. Laidlaw

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PII: S1367-0484(06)00101-9

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2006.08.003

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 29, Issue 4 , Pages 163-164 , September 2006