Conductive Keratoplasty: A Primer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: SciTech Book News | Date: December 1, 2005 | Copyright information

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Conductive keratoplasty; a primer.

Ed. by Roberto Pinelli and Stephen E. Pascucci.

Slack Inc.

2005

162 pages

$124.95

Hardcover

RE336

Conductive keratoplasty (CK) entered refractive surgery as a treatment for low to moderate hyperopia. Its best results were found with patients who were low hyperopic and emmetropic presbyopes with little or no astigmatism, a circumstance...

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