Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 55-63 , April 2009

Behaviour modification in the management of chronic habits of abnormal eye rubbing

  • Charles W. McMonnies

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doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2008.11.001

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 55-63 , April 2009

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