Clinical alert: Damage to Goldmann applanation tonometer tips [9]

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-130

  Kniestedt, Christoph ^a,b,c   Stürmer, Jörg ^c   Stamper, Robert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CANTONAL HOSPITAL WINTERTHUR   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; HYPOCHLORITE SODIUM;

ADENOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISINFECTION; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION CONTROL; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONOMETER; TONOMETRY; VIRAL CONTAMINATION;

EID: 14744276694     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00360.x     Document Type: Letter

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