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Archive > January, 2009 Vol. X, No. 1

Expert Advice for Adding Retina

Retinal surgeons can bring lucrative opportunities to cataract ASCs.

Leigh Page, Contributing Editor

Eye surgery centers have grown like mushrooms in the past decade, but they've tended to host a limited repertoire of cases: just cataracts, no retinal surgery. Retina procedures are longer and more complicated, require extra training and are mostly performed in hospital ORs by an estimated 1,300 retina-only surgeons.

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