Study of photoablation of rabbit corneas by Er:YAG laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 32-39

  Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a   Brancato, Rosario ^b   Sozzi, Carlo ^a   Taroni, Paola ^a   Trabucchi, Giuseppe ^b   Valentini, Gianluca ^a   Verdi, Mariangela ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

erbium laser; photoablation; refractive surgery

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; ELECTRIC INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGING; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; REFRACTIVE KERATOPLASTY; THERMAL INJURY;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; ERBIUM; HEAT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; RABBITS; VACUOLES; VIDEO RECORDING; YTTRIUM;

EID: 0029820177     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)19:1<32::AID-LSM5>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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