LASIK complications and their management

Refractive Surgery, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 195-221

  Farah, Samir G ^a   Ghanem, Ramon C ^b   Azar, Dimitri T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALAMAND   (Lebanon)

^b University of Illinois Chicago   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-03599-6.50076-6     Document Type: Chapter

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