Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 33, Issue 3 , Pages 144-146 , June 2010

Break in microkeratome oscillating pin during LASIK flap creation

  • Chandrashekar Balachandran

      Affiliations

    • Australian School of Advanced Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
    • ,
  • Ioannis M. Aslanides

      Affiliations

    • Emmetropia Mediterranean Eye Institute, Parodos Anopoleos 7, GR 71201, Iraklio, Crete, Greece
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

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PII: S1367-0484(09)00177-5

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2009.12.006

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 33, Issue 3 , Pages 144-146 , June 2010

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