Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 231-237 , December 2006

Calculated tear oxygen tension under contact lenses offering resistance in series: Piggyback and scleral lenses

  • Barry A. Weissman

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Jules Stein Eye Institute, 100 Stein Plaza, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-7003, United States. Tel.: +1 310 206 6351; fax: +1 310 206 0595.
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  • Ping Ye

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☆ Dr. Ye was supported in part by an education grant from Vistakon, a division of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. Dr. Weissman's participation was supported in part by a research grant from Dr. Marvin Smotrich.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2006.09.001

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 29, Issue 5 , Pages 231-237 , December 2006

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