Ultrastructure of picosecond laser intrastromal photodisruption

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 607-612

  Krueger, Ronald R ^a   Quantock, Andrew J ^a   Juhasz, Tibor ^b   Ito, Mitsutoshi ^a   Assil, Kerry K ^a   Schanzlin, David J ^a  

^a Anheuser Busch Eye Institute at St Louis University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL STROMA; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING TRANSMISSION; RABBITS;

EID: 0029814336     PISSN: 08830444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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