Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 122-125 , June 2008

Corneal stability after discontinued soft contact lens wear

  • Hassan Hashemi

      Affiliations

    • Farabi Eye Hospital, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
    • Noor Ophthalmology Research Center, Noor Eye Hospital, #106 Esfandiar Blvd., Vali’asr Avenue, Tehran 19686, Iran
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  • Mehdi Rashighi Firoozabadi

      Affiliations

    • Noor Ophthalmology Research Center, Noor Eye Hospital, #106 Esfandiar Blvd., Vali’asr Avenue, Tehran 19686, Iran
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  • Shiva Mehravaran

      Affiliations

    • Noor Ophthalmology Research Center, Noor Eye Hospital, #106 Esfandiar Blvd., Vali’asr Avenue, Tehran 19686, Iran
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +98 21 88651515; fax: +98 21 88651514.
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  • Farzam Gorouhi

      Affiliations

    • Noor Ophthalmology Research Center, Noor Eye Hospital, #106 Esfandiar Blvd., Vali’asr Avenue, Tehran 19686, Iran

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☆ The authors declare they have no proprietary interest in any product or method mentioned in this manuscript.

PII: S1367-0484(08)00028-3

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2008.02.001

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 31, Issue 3 , Pages 122-125 , June 2008

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