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Please read the following rules and regulations before submitting your abstract. You can then submit your abstract by using the link at the end of this page.

If you have already submitted an abstract for this meeting you may view it or enter new abstracts by clicking on the Speaker Zone and entering the Access Key which was emailed to you.

• Please note that Poster presentations will be displayed electronically at the Congress in Lisbon.
• Instead of presenting a graphical poster on a board, authors must present their Poster as a maximum of 6 Powerpoint slides.
• On acceptance of a Poster Abstract for presentation in Lisbon, the author will be fully informed of the process for the submission and display of their presentation.
  
  
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All submissions must be made online by the deadline. Abstracts submitted in hard copy format will not be considered. Once you have submitted your abstract you will be given access to the Speaker Zone, where you must check your abstract. If you are not given access to the Speaker Zone or if your abstract is not visible in the Speaker Zone, this means that your abstract has not been submitted properly. If this happens, please contact in the ESCRS Office. The organisers will not accept any responsibility for abstracts that have not been submitted properly.

Each author may submit a maximum of 2 abstracts in any 1 category (ie. free papers, posters,clinical research symposia, video competition, video library, video symposium). You must ensure to indicate what type of abstract you are submitting. If you are submitting a free paper or a poster, you must ensure to choose a theme from the options given.

All abstracts will initially be reviewed, graded and accepted or rejected by the Programme Committee. The Committee reserves the right to determine whether a free paper submission is accepted as an oral presentation or a poster. The decision of the Committee is final.

If a paper or poster is accepted for presentation, the first author must undertake to present it. The presenter must be a registered delegate at the congress and pay all applicable fees.

Failure to present without prior notice to the Programme Committee may influence future acceptance of presentations.

All abstracts selected will be published in the Book of Abstracts. The abstract will appear exactly as submitted.

ESCRS holds the copyright on all accepted free papers. This means that authors of accepted ESCRS scientific paper presentations must first submit a manuscript to the 'Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery' and may not seek publication elsewhere until the copyright is released by the 'Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery'.

All abstracts must be in English and follow the structured format below

. Title (20 words max)
. Purpose (50 words max)
. Setting/Venue (20 words max)
. Methods (100 words max)
. Results (100 words max)
. Conclusions (50 words max)
. Financial Disclosure: Yes\No

. The summary of results presented must be given in sufficient detail to support the conclusions. The Programme Committee will only accept abstracts with final results or conclusions.

. References and credits cannot be included as part of an abstract.

. Formulae should, in general, be avoided.

. When using abbreviations or acronyms for the first time, care should be taken to spell them out in full with the abbreviation in parentheses after the full word/s the first time it appears in the text. The abbreviation should be used alone thereafter.

. Indicate whether the presenting author or any co-author have a financial interest in the subject matter or receive money from any mentioned company.

Free Papers 3 minutes
Free Papers 6 minutes
Posters - Cataract
Posters - Refractive
Posters - Miscellaneous
Clinical Research Symposia 1: Optics and Quality of Vision in Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Clinical Research Symposia 3: New Biomaterials Changing Drug Delivery and Trends in Anterior Segment Surgery
Clinical Research Symposia 4: Imaging of the Anterior Segment of the Eye
Video Competition - Educational
Video Competition - Innovative
Video Competition - New Contributors
Video Competition - Scientific
Video Competition - Special Cases
Video Library
Video Symposium on Challenging Cases

Accommodation
Anaesthesia
Cataract epidemiology
Cataract surgery complications
Cataract surgery equipment
Cataract surgery outcomes
Cataract surgery - paediatric
Cataract surgery practice styles
Cataract surgery special cases
Combined cataract surgery techniques
Combined refractive surgery
Cornea - medical
Cornea - surgical
Glaucoma
Imaging
Keratorefractive surgery outcomes - hyperopia
Keratorefractive surgery outcomes - myopia
Keratorefractive surgery outcomes - presbyopia
Ocular pathologies
Optical properties of the eye
Phakic IOLs
New IOLs
Posterior capsule opacification
Pseudophakic IOLs
Quality of vision evaluation techniques
Refractive lens exchange
Refractive surgery complications
Refractive surgery - Epi-LASIK
Refractive surgery new techniques/instruments
Refractive surgery outcomes for presbyopia
Refractive surgery practice styles
Visual Rehabilitation
Viscoelastics