Soft Lens Extended Wear and Complications

Manual of Contact Lens Prescribing and Fitting

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 393-441

  Jones, Lyndon ^a   Dumbleton, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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