Nature Medicine
3, 958 - 960 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0997-958
A brighter future for cataract surgeryNobuhiro IbarakiDepartment of Ophthalmology Nippon Medical School Tokyo 113, Japan A method for preventing lens epithelial cell growth following cataract surgery suggests a novel way to deliver drugs to the eye (pages 1026−1028).
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