Photorefractive keratectomy: The Sankara Nethralaya experience

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 27, Issue 5 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Rao, Srinivas K ^a,b   Mukesh, Bickol N ^a   Bakshi, Harshita ^a   Sitalakshmi, G ^a   Padmanabhan, Prema ^a  

^a SANKARA NETHRALAYA   (India)

^b VISION RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; FLUOROMETHOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORNEA DISEASE; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; KERATECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BETAMETHASONE; CORNEAL OPACITY; FEMALE; FLUOROMETHOLONE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INDIA; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; KERATITIS, HERPETIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0029920235     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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