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Archive > May, 2010 Vol. XI, No. 5

Mystery and Mastery of TASS

Your colleagues share their insights for preventing this sight-threatening condition.

Dan O'Connor, Editor-in-Chief

"When an outbreak occurs, why do some surgeons have no TASS at all while others have multiple episodes on different surgical days?" asks Dwayne Kertanis, administrator of the Constitution Eye Surgery Center in Newington, Conn. "Thank goodness this issue does not present itself very often."

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