Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 5 , Pages 204-206 , October 2009

Rigid gas permeable contact lenses: Out in the cold

  • A. Jonathan Jackson

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Ophthalmology, Contact Lens & Low Vision Unit, Royal Victoria Hospital/Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Contact Lens & Low Vision Unit, Dept. of Ophthalmology, Royal Group of Hospitals, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6BA, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 028 9063 4128; fax: +44 028 9063 5283.
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  • Clive J. Wolsley

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Optometry and Vision Sciences, Vision Science Research Group, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    • Northern Ireland Regional Medical Physics Agency, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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PII: S1367-0484(09)00082-4

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2009.06.006

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 5 , Pages 204-206 , October 2009

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