Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 41-42 , February 2010

Keratoconus associated with the Pierre Robin Sequence

  • Ming-Lee Lin

      Affiliations

    • Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
    • ,
  • Vishal Jhanji

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Eye Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong
    • Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Eye Hospital, 147K Argyle Street, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel.: +852 27623180; fax: +852 27159490.
    • ,
  • Rasik B. Vajpayee

      Affiliations

    • Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
    • Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Australia

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PII: S1367-0484(09)00126-X

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2009.09.003

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 33, Issue 1 , Pages 41-42 , February 2010

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