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There are two (or three) wounds which need to be closed during a SICS surgery, namely:

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  1. Department of Cataract and Cornea, Disha Eye Hospitals, Kolkata, WB, India

    Samar K. Basak MD, FRCS

  2. Department of PG Education, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

    Soham Basak MS (Resident)

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  1. Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

    Bonnie An Henderson

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Basak, S.K., Basak, S. (2016). Wound Closure. In: Henderson, B. (eds) Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24666-6_11

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