From the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences (Lin, Chuang), Chang Gung University College of Medicine, and Department of Ophthalmology (Lin, Chuang), Zuoying Armed Forces General Hospital, Kaohsiung; the Departments of Ophthalmology, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital and Fu-Jen Catholic University (Peng), Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Chiou, Chen), and Taipei City Hospital (Chiou, Lin-Chung-Woung, Tsai); the Department of Medical Research and Education (Chiou), Taipei Veterans General Hospital; Cheng-Hsin General Hospital (Liu); the School of Medicine (Peng, Liu, Lin-Chung-Woung, Tsai, Chen) and Institute of Clinical Medicine (Peng, Chiou), National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
∗ Corresponding author: Shih-Jen Chen, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Number 201, Section 2, Shih-pai Road, Taipei 11217, Taiwan.
E-mail: [email protected]
Submitted: October 18, 2010.
Final revision submitted: January 31, 2011.
Accepted: February 2, 2011.
Tzu-Jung Lin, MD, Chi-Hsien Peng, MD, and Shih-Hwa Chiou, MD, PhD, contributed equally to this work.
Supported by the National Science Council (97-3111-B-075-001-MY3, 98-2314-B-341-001-MY3), the Division of Experimental Surgery of the Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital (C1-099/ER3-001), Taipei City Hospital (96/97/98/10001-62-042), Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital (SKH-8302-97-DR-25, SKH-8302-98-DR-26), Yen-Tjing Ling Medical Foundation (96/97/98), Zuoying Armed Forces General Hospital (9502/9696/9719), Technology Development Program for Academia (98-EC-17-A-19-S2-0107), Department of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan.
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Tzu-Jung Lin, MD
Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
