Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 84-87 , April 2009

Prolonged corneal anaesthesia by proxymetacaine hydrochloride detected by a thermal cooling stimulus

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doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2008.12.006

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 84-87 , April 2009

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