Commercially available rigid gas-permeable contact lens for protecting the cornea from drying during vitrectomy with a wide viewing system

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1321-1324

  Kamei, Motohiro ^a   Matsumura, Nagakazu ^a   Sakaguchi, Hirokazu ^a   Oshima, Yusuke ^a   Ikuno, Yasushi ^a   Nishida, Kohji ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact lens; RGP; Viscoelastic agent; Vitrectomy; Wide viewing system

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRY EYE; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICE; GAS PERMEABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATERIAL STATE; SOFT CONTACT LENS; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 84865818534     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S33595     Document Type: Article

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