Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 233-238 , September 2007

Goldmann applanation tonometry over daily disposable contact lens: Accuracy and safety of procedure

  • Fabrizio Zeri

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Superiore di Stato “E. De Amicis”, Dipartimento di Optometria, Rome, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Dipartimento di Optometria dell’Istituto “E. Amicis”, Via Galvani 6, 00153 Rome, Italy. Tel.: +39 3409373736; fax: +39 0657133143.
    • ,
  • Luigi Lupelli

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Superiore di Stato “E. De Amicis”, Dipartimento di Optometria, Rome, Italy
    • Istituto Superiore di Stato “E. De Amicis”, Scuola di Ottica, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Paolo Formichella

      Affiliations

    • Private Practice, Edinburgh, UK
    • ,
  • Carlo Masci

      Affiliations

    • Istituto Superiore di Stato “E. De Amicis”, Dipartimento di Optometria, Rome, Italy
    • ,
  • Robert Fletcher

      Affiliations

    • City University, Department of Optometry and Visual Science, London, UK

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PII: S1367-0484(07)00071-9

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2007.06.001

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 233-238 , September 2007

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