A sterile disposable cryoextractor (cryophake).
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A sterile disposable cryoextractor (cryophake).
DURING the past few months a new cryoextractor, the cryophake, has been employed in some forty cataract extractions performed by the staff and residents at Walter Reed General Hospital. The prototype of this instrument: was developed by R. David Sudarsky (Mattis, Brady, and Sugana, 1965). It is a sterile disposable unit with a self-contained source of cryogen. It is made of injection-moulded po...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1967
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.51.6.423